Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer

JobGet

  • Vancouver, BC
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Apply easily
About JobGetAs the #1 app focused on everyday workers, JobGet is redefining the future of hiring. Founded in 2019, JobGet began as the only mobile-first hiring platform for everyday workers. Since then, we’ve grown by joining forces with Snagajob, the largest hourly job board in the U.S., followed by Seasoned, the leading platform for restaurant hiring. Each acquisition has brought JobGet closer to the frontline, making the platform faster, smarter, and more effective.While most platforms chase volume, JobGet is laying the foundation for a new kind of hiring infrastructure focused on precision, speed, and real outcomes. Our AI-powered engine learns, adapts, and improves continuously. Employers don’t just get candidates, they get hires. Workers don’t just search, they get matched. The result is a more efficient hiring process with less friction and better results.We serve a diverse range of industries, from food service and customer support to healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing. With access to over 200 million job seekers, our platform leverages cutting-edge AI to match qualified, role-ready candidates, automating key parts of the hiring process for faster decisions and better outcomes. By combining scale with precision, we’re transforming how businesses hire and how people find meaningful work.Our mission is simple: to help everyday workers thrive by providing accessible, frictionless hiring solutions that deliver real results. Join us as we continue to build the future of work for the millions of people who power our world every day.Learn more about our cultureWho We AreWe’ve designed our values to be more than just buzzwords; they’re things we can do. We hope that our culture reflects our values by our commitment to living them every day.Make a difference every day
  • Teamwork - We make time to help colleagues across JobGet succeed.
  • Excellence - We set ambitious targets, put in extraordinary effort, and persevere until we have accomplished — or exceeded — our goals.
  • Innovation - We’re a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers who thrive in a continuously evolving environment. To us, innovation is about questioning the status quo and always striving to do things better.
Have Unwavering grit
  • Resilience - By remaining resilient and adaptable, we grow stronger as individuals and as an organization.
  • Accountability - We operate with an ownership mentality where everyone feels a sense of responsibility to make us better and always act in the best interest of JobGet.
  • Speed - We make decisions fast and execute them even faster. Bias for speed is one of our core strengths and a key advantage over our competitors.
Grow through curiosity & kindness
  • Respect - We treat each other with mutual respect, kindness, and celebrate our differences.
  • Learning - We ask questions and seek to understand by being genuinely curious & communicative.
  • Culture - We believe that each of us is responsible for our culture. It requires self-discipline and the drive to contribute to something greater than ourselves.
What You’ll DoWe are looking for an exceptional and ambitious Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer who thrives in building scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to power our growing platform. As a dedicated SRE/DevOps leader at JobGet, you will play a key role in shaping and supporting our cloud architecture, automation, and developer enablement strategy.You must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-autonomy startup environment - balancing hands-on engineering with strategic decision-making, and driving best practices across scalable architecture, monitoring, security, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the technical foundation of a growing product and ensure our systems scale alongside our business.Responsibilities
  • Partner with leadership to shape long-term infrastructure strategy and roadmaps that directly support and accelerate overarching business goals.
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code to manage and scale environments.
  • Drive infrastructure cost optimization while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Ensure efficient use of compute resources (GPUs/TPUs) for AI workloads while managing costs and scalability.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging AI-powered tools to enhance operational efficiency and developer productivity.
  • Leverage AI/ML tools to predict infrastructure issues before they impact performance, automate root-cause analysis, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure visibility, performance, and reliability.
  • Participate in incident response and postmortem processes; help establish and refine best practices.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimize build, deployment, and release processes.
  • Establish and evolve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast, reliable, and automated software delivery.
  • Set and enforce DevOps best practices across the organization, mentoring engineers in cloud, automation, and security.
  • Operate with a high degree of resourcefulness and autonomy; you will be empowered to make significant technical decisions and drive projects end-to-end with limited oversight.
Who You Are
  • 7+ years of experience in a combined SRE/ DevOps, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering role, with at least 2+ years of experience acting as a primary technical contributor in a lead or senior position.
  • Recent experience working on a small, agile team in a start-up environment.
  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS required; experience with GCP or Azure a plus).
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, etc.).
  • Solid understanding of networking, security, and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Proficiency in debugging, triaging, and isolating faults across distributed, microservices-based systems.
  • Experience scaling, consolidating, and standardizing infrastructure in a startup environment.
  • Strong background in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation).
  • Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
  • Experience working in an environment shaped by acquisitions or rapid growth, with an appreciation for the technical and cultural complexity that comes with it.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering and leadership teams along with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts.
  • A bias for ownership, you take projects seriously from start to finish, hold yourself accountable for outcomes, and proactively identify and resolve risk before it becomes a problem.
  • A builder’s mindset: you enjoy rolling up your sleeves, solving tough problems, and enabling others to move faster.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a builder's mindset: you thrive when the path forward isn't defined, and you enjoy working through complexity, solving tough problems, and enabling others to move faster.
At JobGet, we’re looking for people who see themselves in our Values. If you have made a measurable impact in your career and are known for your grit and curiosity, we encourage you to apply. We look forward to hearing from you.Benefits & Rewards
  • Purpose-driven organization
  • Flexible time off
  • Remote-first
  • Flexible work hours - our employees are in multiple time zones
  • Medical & dental plans
  • Parental leave
  • Employee stock options
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