[Remote] Staff DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cadence is the clinical AI company automating the treatment of chronic disease. They are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to design, operate, and scale the cloud infrastructure that powers care delivery for over 100,000 patients, ensuring reliability, security, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and continuous improvement of Cadence's cloud infrastructure, driving reliability, scalability, and secure software delivery across all environments
- Maintain and mature core Kubernetes services, including resilient networking, autoscaling, monitoring, and well-architected patterns for production workloads that support real-time patient monitoring
- Lead Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code practices, including authoring, reviewing, and enforcing standards for AI-generated IaC to ensure correctness and security before deployment
- Define and enforce DevSecOps controls across clusters, including least-privilege IAM, container image scanning, and runtime policy - ensuring infrastructure meets the compliance requirements of a regulated healthcare environment
- Sharpen observability practices using tools like Datadog, improving alerting, incident response, and the feedback loops that keep clinical systems available and performant
- Manage infrastructure spend with discipline, identifying and resolving cost inefficiencies without compromising system resilience
- Mentor engineers across the team on infrastructure best practices, raising the technical bar in pull requests, runbooks, and production operations
Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production cloud infrastructure at scale
- Deep experience with AWS and Kubernetes, including designing, operating, and debugging production clusters under real load
- Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or comparable tooling
- Strong command of observability tooling, including Datadog or equivalent platforms, with experience building alerting systems and leading incident response
- Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry, with working knowledge of relevant compliance and security requirements
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising infrastructure standards across a team
- Fluency with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development tools; demonstrated experience building or evaluating AI-powered systems in production
Benefits
- Competitive pay & equity*
- Fully remote
- Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental & vision
- Paid time off
- 401k plan + matching
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
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