Principal DevOps Engineer
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Principal DevOps Engineer at Malwarebytes responsible for AWS infrastructure management and CI/CD automation. Leading security and reliability initiatives while mentoring engineering team members.
Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform
- Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Champion infrastructure security: proactively identify and remediate cloud misconfigurations
- Own and improve SRE practices: define SLOs, build alerting and observability solutions
- Participate in on-call rotation and own production incidents end-to-end
- Maintain build and release environments for development teams
- Evaluate and adopt emerging DevOps technologies through structured proof-of-concept testing
- Keep documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams current and actionable
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and strategic guidance to the engineering team
- Interface with executive leadership to communicate platform strategy, risk, and investment tradeoffs
Requirements:
- 10+ years of hands-on DevOps or SRE experience, with at least 5 years operating production workloads in AWS at scale
- BA/BS in Engineering or Computer Science preferred; equivalent experience demonstrated through a proven track record accepted
- An ideal candidate holds one or more AWS Professional-level certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Professional, or equivalent)
- Deep Terraform expertise
- Strong GitHub Actions experience building pipelines as code
- Jenkins experience is a plus
- Demonstrable cloud security depth
- Strong scripting and automation — Python, Go, or Bash
- Solid Linux system administration and container management (Docker)
- Proven SRE practice experience
- Familiarity with cross-platform code compilation (Windows and macOS)
- Active, daily use of AI coding assistants expected
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Demonstrated ability to operate at a principal or staff engineer level
- Proven experience providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Wellness programs
- 401k and employer matching for (US Employees)
- Comprehensive Time Off policy
- An opportunity to do something great for yourself and the world!


















