Staff DevOps Engineer, Software, Product Operations

Alewife, Cambridge, MAfull timeOn Site

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$192k–$272k

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Lila Sciences Staff DevOps Engineer at Lila Sciences to design, build, and operate software applications and systems supporting product and delivery platforms. The role focuses on backend development, automation, deployment workflows, and improving reliability and observability.

Responsibilities

The Senior II/ Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations will design, build, and operate the software applications, services, and systems that support Lila’s product and delivery platforms. This role is for a strong software developer who is comfortable working close to infrastructure, reliability, CI/CD, and cloud systems.
This role works closely with software engineers, ML engineers, and scientific teams to support platform operations, inference workloads, experiment orchestration, and application security. It is best suited for someone who wants to build durable software systems while improving how those systems are designed, deployed, monitored, and operated.
What You'll Be Building
Design and build production applications, services, and internal tools for Platform Operations.
Develop backend services, APIs, automation systems, and workflow integrations.
Use agentic coding tools to accelerate delivery while improving code quality and test coverage.
Build deployment and release workflows that make software delivery faster and safer.
Improve reliability, observability, and operational readiness across software systems.
Partner with infrastructure and platform teams on Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, and security.
Create developer-friendly tooling that helps engineering teams ship and operate services.
Debug complex issues across application code, infrastructure, and production environments.
Apply sound software design practices to systems that need to scale and evolve.

Qualification

Experience designing APIsExperience building platformFamiliarity with AWSExperience improving observabilityExperience supporting ML

Required

5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, services, or systems.
Strong backend development skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
Experience designing APIs, services, automation workflows, and internal developer tools.
Practical experience using agentic coding tools to improve engineering quality and output.
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and deployment systems.
Strong debugging skills across application code, distributed systems, and production environments.
Ability to design maintainable systems with clear interfaces, observability, and secure defaults.
Strong communication skills and a track record of cross-functional engineering collaboration.

Preferred

Experience building platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure-adjacent software systems.
Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Experience improving observability, deployment safety, incident response, or operational tooling.
Background with security-minded software delivery, including secrets, access controls, scanning, or supply chain practices.
Experience using AI or agentic development workflows for testing, refactoring, documentation, or delivery automation.
Experience supporting ML, inference, scientific, or data-intensive workloads

Benefits

Dental
Vision
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

Lila Sciences

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