Sr. DevOps Engineer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at TaxGPT — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: TaxGPT
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 140000–160000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
About Us
TaxGPT is revolutionizing the tax and accounting space with AI-driven solutions tailored for accountants, tax professionals, and SMBs. We're building an AI co-pilot to transform tax workflows, drive efficiency, and simplify compliance. Recently named one of Business Insider’s 30 Early-Stage Startups Most Likely to Become Tech’s Next Unicorns, we'd love for you to join our growing team!
Location: US Remote
Pay Range: $140k to $160k + Equity + Variable Comp up to 20% of base salary
Benefits offered: Medical, dental, vision, 401k + 3% match, life insurance
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience to help build, scale, and secure our infrastructure, deployment systems, and developer operations. This person will play a critical role in improving reliability, performance, security, and engineering velocity across the company.
You will work closely with software engineers, product teams, and technical leadership to design and maintain systems that support fast development, stable production environments, and long-term scalability.
This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate with high autonomy, own critical infrastructure, make strong architectural decisions, and raise the technical bar across the engineering organization.
What You’ll Do
Infrastructure and Platform Ownership
Own the design, implementation, and long-term health of cloud infrastructure and internal platform systems
Build and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments
Improve infrastructure automation, environment consistency, and operational resilience
Manage networking, compute, storage, observability, and access controls across core systems
CI/CD and Developer Productivity
Design, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe, and repeatable deployments
Build tooling and workflows that improve developer experience and reduce operational friction
Standardize release processes, deployment practices, and rollback strategies
Identify bottlenecks in development and deployment workflows and drive improvements
Reliability, Monitoring, and Incident Response
Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through strong operational practices
Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response systems
Lead root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes for recurring operational issues
Establish and improve standards around uptime, recovery, and production readiness
Security and Compliance
Implement infrastructure security best practices across environments and workflows
Strengthen access controls, secrets management, auditability, and system hardening
Partner with engineering leadership to reduce operational and security risk
Support compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience initiatives where needed
Technical Leadership
Lead architectural decisions related to infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform reliability
Partner with engineering leaders to shape long-term infrastructure strategy
Mentor engineers on infrastructure, deployment, observability, and operational best practices
Raise the team’s standards through documentation, design reviews, code reviews, and process improvements.
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
Strong experience designing and managing production infrastructure in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Deep experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines
Strong knowledge of containers and orchestration, including tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
Strong experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
Experience improving reliability, security, and scalability in production systems
Strong scripting or coding ability in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
Strong understanding of networking, system design, access control, and cloud security fundamentals
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting fast-moving startup engineering teams
Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling
Familiarity with modern security and compliance practices
Experience with incident management, postmortems, and operational maturity improvements
Experience working closely with backend and application engineering teams to improve system design and delivery quality
How We Define Success in This Role
A strong Senior DevOps Engineer in this role:
operates with high autonomy and needs little day-to-day direction
owns critical infrastructure and improves its long-term health
makes strong architectural and operational decisions
improves developer velocity without compromising reliability or security
mentors others and raises the engineering bar across the team
brings structure and clarity to complex infrastructure and operational challenges
Key Responsibilities:
Autonomy
Works independently on complex infrastructure and reliability problems
Identifies risks and improvements before they become urgent issues
Translates broad engineering goals into clear technical plans
System Ownership
Owns critical infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform reliability
Takes responsibility for scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational health
Drives long-term fixes, not just short-term patches
Mentoring and Collaboration
Guides engineers on infrastructure and operational best practices
Improves team effectiveness through documentation, reviews, and technical support
Collaborates closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams
Architectural Decision-Making
Makes sound decisions on cloud architecture, deployment strategy, observability, and security
Evaluates tradeoffs carefully across cost, speed, reliability, and complexity
Builds systems that scale with company needs
Why Join Us
You’ll have the opportunity to shape the foundation of our engineering platform and help define how infrastructure, reliability, and developer operations scale as the company grows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys ownership, technical depth, and building systems that make the entire engineering organization stronger.