Key skills
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2LinuxPythonTerraformCloudFormationRDSCloudWatchSNSSQSLeadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Own and operate production systems supporting Modulate’s APIs and enterprise products
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes
- Build and improve on-call rotations and operational workflows
- Collaborate with engineers to deploy, maintain, and scale distributed systems
- Partner with leadership on infrastructure decisions, roadmaps, and reliability goals
- Evaluate and support deployment models including cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
- Continuously improve system performance, resilience, and scalability
Requirements
- Experience deploying and maintaining production software systems
- Experience building monitoring and alerting systems for production environments
- Experience with on-call rotations and incident response
- Strong experience with AWS, Python, and Linux
- Familiarity with tools such as CloudWatch, SNS, PagerDuty, or similar technologies
- Strong debugging, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate effectively during high-pressure incidents
- Experience working in fast-paced or early-stage environments
- Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, load balancers, RDS, SQS, SES, and CloudWatch
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience supporting high-scale, distributed systems
- Familiarity with hybrid or on-prem deployment models
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- EC2
- Linux
- Python
- Terraform
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO, with a strong culture of taking it
- Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
- Hybrid work: core in-office days with flexible remote options
- Regular leadership and industry learning sessions
- Support for career development and continued learning
- Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
- A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture