Staff DevOps Engineer

Descope is a developer-first identity provider for customers, partners, and AI agents. Our drag & drop approach to identity enables developers to easily deploy authentication, MFA, SSO, and MCP / AI agent auth without writing custom code.
Descope is trusted by over 1000 organizations in production including GoFundMe, Databricks, GoodRx, Linktree, and You.com. The company has $88M in seed funding led by Lightspeed and Notable Capital.
We're "descoping" authentication plumbing from developers' daily lives while helping organizations turn identity into a business enabler. Come join us!

The Role:
We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who will help us maintain high availability of our platform and improve our CI/CD pipelines.

What You'll Do:

• Build automations on top of Pulumi
• Solve difficult problems regarding the architecture and deployment of the Descope Product
• Build infrastructure for dev teams to ship features faster and more reliably
• Build infrastructure to support very high workloads and traffic

What We're Looking For:

• 4+ years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role
• Experience managing high-scale cloud environments
• Proven ability to support and monitor 99.999% SLA systems
• Significant experience developing on AWS Cloud
• Experience with CI/CD methodologies
• Coding experience in Python or TypeScript/JS
• Close familiarity with software engineering tools, development methodology, and release processes
• Experience managing large databases (millions/billions of rows, terabytes/petabytes of data)
• Experience with Pulumi is a plus