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.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 RemoteExperience: 7+ yearsPay Range: $140k to $160k + Equity + Variable Comp up to 20% of base salaryBenefits offered: Medical, dental, vision, 401k + 3% match, life insuranceAbout 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 systemsBuild and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across development, staging, and production environmentsImprove infrastructure automation, environment consistency, and operational resilienceManage networking, compute, storage, observability, and access controls across core systemsCI/CD and Developer Productivity Design, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe, and repeatable deploymentsBuild tooling and workflows that improve developer experience and reduce operational frictionStandardize release processes, deployment practices, and rollback strategiesIdentify bottlenecks in development and deployment workflows and drive improvementsReliability, Monitoring, and Incident Response Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through strong operational practicesBuild and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response systemsLead root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes for recurring operational issuesEstablish and improve standards around uptime, recovery, and production readinessSecurity and Compliance Implement infrastructure security best practices across environments and workflowsStrengthen access controls, secrets management, auditability, and system hardeningPartner with engineering leadership to reduce operational and security riskSupport compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience initiatives where neededTechnical Leadership Lead architectural decisions related to infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform reliabilityPartner with engineering leaders to shape long‑term infrastructure strategyMentor engineers on infrastructure, deployment, observability, and operational best practicesRaise 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 EngineeringStrong experience designing and managing production infrastructure in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or AzureDeep experience with CI/CD systems , infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelinesStrong knowledge of containers and orchestration , including tools such as Docker and KubernetesExperience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormationStrong experience with monitoring, logging, and observability toolsExperience improving reliability, security, and scalability in production systemsStrong scripting or coding ability in languages such as Python, Bash, or GoStrong understanding of networking, system design, access control, and cloud security fundamentalsPreferred Qualifications Experience supporting fast‑moving startup engineering teamsExperience building internal developer platforms or self‑service infrastructure toolingFamiliarity with modern security and compliance practicesExperience with incident management, postmortems, and operational maturity improvementsExperience working closely with backend and application engineering teams to improve system design and delivery qualityHow We Define Success in This Role A strong Senior DevOps Engineer in this role:operates with high autonomy and needs little day‑to‑day directionowns critical infrastructure and improves its long‑term healthmakes strong architectural and operational decisionsimproves developer velocity without compromising reliability or securitymentors others and raises the engineering bar across the teambrings structure and clarity to complex infrastructure and operational challengesKey Responsibilities: Autonomy Works independently on complex infrastructure and reliability problemsIdentifies risks and improvements before they become urgent issuesTranslates broad engineering goals into clear technical plansSystem Ownership Owns critical infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform reliabilityTakes responsibility for scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational healthDrives long‑term fixes, not just short‑term patchesMentoring and Collaboration Guides engineers on infrastructure and operational best practicesImproves team effectiveness through documentation, reviews, and technical supportCollaborates closely with engineering, product, and leadership teamsMakes sound decisions on cloud architecture, deployment strategy, observability, and securityEvaluates tradeoffs carefully across cost, speed, reliability, and complexityBuilds systems that scale with company needsWhy 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.#J-18808-Ljbffr