Sr. DevOps Engineer

About the 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