Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer

Company: Smartcat
Employment type: Full-time
Work format: Remote

Mission

We are looking for a true leader who will manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams to improve and maintain the technical infrastructure required to support the development, deployment, and operation of Smartcat. This includes ensuring the availability, scalability, and reliability of staging and production environments, and defining and enforcing best SRE and DevOps practices.

Outcomes

• Zero incorrect release-related production issues: Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to eliminate release errors.
• CI/CD and staging servers availability at 99.9%: Maintain robust staging infrastructure with minimal downtime.
• Product availability at 99.99%: Implement resilient systems and procedures for near-perfect product uptime, with effective disaster recovery plans.
• Decrease lead time: Accelerate CI/CD pipelines and environments.
• Build and manage a team of A+ players within the engineering organisation across different regions and time zones. You are expected to strengthen the hiring process, provide expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development for your team members.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience leading a team in a fast-growing multinational IT business
• 5 years of experience in DevOps and SRE, maintaining high-RPS (requests per second) distributed products
• Data-driven approach, with the ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics
• Ability to build relationships with neighboring teams, initiate and adhere to agreements, and act as an interface between your team and the environment
• Strong hands-on experience with DevOps practices (in a leading role), specifically building complex CI/CD pipelines, implementing IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and realizing various deployment strategies
• Experience implementing secure development environments
• Practical experience developing and maintaining large scalable applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Tech Stack

.NET Core, MongoDB, Vue 2/3, AWS, Kafka, ES, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Jaeger, k8s

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

A global, connected team

A team of 200+ people across 30+ countries, working through a hub-and-spoke model anchored in eight key locations: New York, London, Lisbon, Costa Rica, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, and Spain. Most roles are remote-friendly, giving you the flexibility to do your best work from where you thrive. You'll be part of a highly collaborative, globally-distributed team that values ownership, speed, and meaningful impact.

Be part of an AI native organization

Smartcat uses AI across all areas of the organization to accelerate decision-making and free people to focus on strategy and high-impact work. All Smartcaters, regardless of level or department, are encouraged to manage their own AI agents.

Innovating a $100 billion industry

Smartcat is reshaping the $100B multilingual content industry with an AI-powered platform that makes it easy for companies to create, translate, and localize global content at scale.

Join the rocketship

Play a crucial role in the transition from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Smartcat is growing at 130% YoY and plans to accelerate from here.