Lead DevOps Engineer
Job description
This role is part of our ScraperAPI team, one of our growing brands at saas.group.
ScraperAPI is an enterprise-scale web scraping solution, trusted by businesses across a wide range of industries to extract crucial data at scale. From e-commerce, travel to real estate and market research, we support companies in turning the web into actionable insights. We're currently on an exciting growth journey, scaling rapidly as demand for reliable, high-performance web scraping and data keeps rising.
Profile Overview
We are seeking a talented Lead Platform Engineer to join our focused engineering team. We're building a product that handles billions of requests per month for businesses that depend on it. Web data is increasingly central to how companies make decisions, and our infrastructure is what makes accessing it seamless and reliable at scale. You won't be following someone else's roadmap, you'll be building it.
Your immediate impact in the first 3-6 months will be:
- Explore and assess the infrastructure architecture, collecting risks and opportunities that need to be addressed
- Build and maintain a platform roadmap based on your findings, prioritising the work that matters most
- Support the consolidation of two infrastructure stacks into a unified platform, helping shape how the migration happens
- Help the engineering team increase its maturity around AI usage and standardise development environment tooling and processes
Your responsibilities
- Own the platform roadmap: identify what needs to be fixed, what needs to be built, and drive it forward. This is not a ticket-following role
- Lead cost management efforts across our infrastructure, including proxy costs which are among our highest expenses. Identify optimisation opportunities and implement them without compromising performance or security
- Ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of our infrastructure through robust monitoring, alerting and disaster recovery strategies
- Strengthen security measures to protect against continuous threats and attacks
- Lead the consolidation of our two infrastructure stacks into a unified platform, ensuring minimal disruption throughout
- Collaborate closely with development teams, with potential involvement in AI projects
Our tech stack
We run on DigitalOcean and Hetzner, serve our applications with Kubernetes, and work with a range of databases including PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse and MongoDB. Familiarity with this stack or similar environments is a plus.
What you bring to the table
- 5+ years of platform or DevOps engineering experience at scale, with a track record of driving infrastructure improvements. Not just maintaining what's there, but identifying and leading change
- Strong Kubernetes expertise and experience with containerisation and orchestration for large-scale deployments
- Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform) and solid experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus or similar) and sound judgment on what "good" looks like
- Excellent communication skills. You can advise and influence technical stakeholders, adapt to different teams, and work effectively in a fully remote, async-first environment
- A practical track record of using AI tools to drive real impact at work, not just productivity gains, but concrete outcomes you can speak to
- Experience leading or mentoring other engineers
What's in it for you
- Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
- Freedom and autonomy: We're a high-trust team, and you'll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way, with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We don't like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
- Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
- Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally.
- Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.
ScraperAPI is part of saas.group and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.
What is saas.group?
Think of us as the driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 400 colleagues spanning 50+ countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 25 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.
We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.
Sounds like something you're up for? Feel free to apply even if you don't check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!
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saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply.
We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview - so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.