Staff DevOps Engineer setting technical direction for the Internal Developer Platform, including Backstage, goldenpath scaffolder templates, and shared CI/CD components on GitLab CI/CD. The role covers multi-cluster Kubernetes on EKS and GKE with Terraform, Crossplane, Istio, Karpenter, and GitOps tooling (Flux or Argo CD), plus observability and FinOps across AWS and GCP. The posting is truncated and does not state team size or compensation details.
Introduction to Demandbase:
Demandbase is the only pipeline AI platform that empowers GTM teams to automate growth at scale. With a unified view of data, insights, actions, and outcomes, B2B enterprises can seamlessly align and execute their account-based GTM strategies with confidence. Thousands of businesses trust Demandbase to maximize revenue, minimize waste, and consolidate their data and tech stacks – all in one platform.
As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have also continuously been recognized as One of The Best Places To Work in the San Francisco Bay Area by Fortune, and One of The 60 Best Companies To Sell For by Selling Power. Our offices are located in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Seattle, India, and the United Kingdom.
About the Role
As a Staff DevOps Engineer on the Developer Experience (DevEx) team, you will set the technical direction for the platforms, tooling, and workflows that every engineering team at Demandbase depends on to ship reliably to production. This is not a single-team execution role you will define multi-quarter platform strategy across build, test, deploy, and operate stages for services and data pipelines running on AWS and GCP, and you'll be the person other senior and staff engineers across the org come to when a platform decision has broad blast radius.
You'll act as a force multiplier at organizational scale: abstracting infrastructure complexity into paved roads, driving adoption of self-service platforms, and embedding reliability, security, costawareness, and observability. You are fluent with AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows and are expected to help define how the broader engineering org adopts these tools safely and effectively. This role is critical to improving local-to-production parity, reducing cognitive load fleetwide, and sustaining high release velocity across our Kubernetes-based services and data platforms.
You'll combine technical strategy, platform product thinking, and hands-on systems leadership to make reliable delivery the default for engineering teams.
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What You'll Bring
AWS, GCP, Terraform, Crossplane, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Karpenter, Istio, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps (Flux, Argo CD), Backstage (Internal Developer Platform), Apache Airflow, Amazon EMR, Google Dataproc, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Thanos, Datadog, Wiz, Vantage / Finout (FinOps), External Secrets Operator / cloud-native secrets managers, IAM, Go, Python, Java, and AI-assisted/agentic engineering tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex).
Help shape the systems, standards, and developer experience that let engineering teams move quickly and safely.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Demandbase
At Demandbase, we believe in creating a workplace culture that values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We recognize that everyone brings unique experiences, perspectives, and identities to the table, and we are committed to building a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. Discrimination of any kind is not tolerated, and we strive to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed and grow, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, background, marital status, genetic information, education level, veteran status, national origin, or any other protected status. We do not automatically disqualify applicants with criminal records and will consider each applicant on a case-by-case basis.
We recognize that not all candidates will have every skill or qualification listed in this job description. If you feel you have the level of experience to be successful in the role, we encourage you to apply!
We acknowledge that true diversity and inclusion requires ongoing effort, and we are committed to doing the work required to make our workplace a safe and equitable space for all. Join us in building a community where we can learn from each other, celebrate our differences, and work together.
Unsolicited Submissions
At Demandbase, we value thoughtful partnerships and direct connections with candidates. We’re not accepting unsolicited resumes or outreach from third-party recruiting agencies. Any unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed, and no fees will be paid.