Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer
Manifest
Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Aug 20, 2025
Your Impact at Manifest
Manifest is seeking to hire an experienced DevOps Engineer who will own the design, development, implementation, and ongoing operation of Manifest’s infrastructure and build/release pipelines. You will extend and improve our existing processes and systems, ensuring that our pipelines are fast, secure, performant, and scalable. By dogfooding Manifest’s core products, you will also be closely involved with Product and driving the direction of our product roadmaps and helping our users build and deliver software with less risk and greater security.
As a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, you will:
- Be deeply experienced with developing and deploying IaC and automation (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Python, etc.) on a routine basis to support platform and customer requirements with a focus towards automation as much as practicable.
- Have operated and sustained cloud-based CI/CD pipeline and components utilizing DevSecOps principles, a strong eye on shift left mindset, and best practices including reducing human involvement through automation and similar.
- Automated application deployment leveraging container technology in a cloud-based environment through tools such as Kubernetes, Github, and other CI/CD tools and technologies
- Built tools and packaging to allow Manifest to be deployed in varied runtime environments - Cloud (AWS 1st, Azure/GCP secondary) on-prem, air gapped, FedRamp, etc.).
- Dogfood our own software supply chain product
- Integrate DevSecOps tools and services to enable an automated pipeline that supports customer applications throughout their SDLC.
- Research and use the latest in open-source tools to help build and secure our development pipeline
- Implement and improve observability starting with data gathering for MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces) and implementing presentation and alerting within our applications and infrastructure.
- Have deep experience deploying and operating applications with Kubernetes in a Cloud environment.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills including production of design and other technical documents.
- Understand how to expose public endpoints including UI and APIs using load balancers, CDNs, and other tools do deliver robust, secure, highly available services.
- Be strong at networking and runtime troubleshooting experience including the challenges in debugging lights out, dynamic, complex, remote environments including Kubernetes and airgapped.
- Previous experience with commercial software products (SaaS and on-prem) that support 3rd party/external customers.
- Be well versed in Secure SDLC practices including external bug reports and SVM (software vulnerability management) lifecycle tools and processes.
Desirable skills and experience to increase your impact:
- Be capable at assisting application and backend developers on delivering secure applications including appropriate resource polices (CORS headers, etc) and supporting API security engineering by contributing to design and review.
- Experience with Kubernetes in edge environments including bare VM and bare metal.
- Packaging software for on-prem and edge environments using form factors like virtual appliances and containers using tools like Helm charts, Packer, etc.
- Securing clouds (AWS), containers, and Kubernetes
- Securing SDLC pipelines (e.g. using SCA/SAST/DAST tools)
- Experience supporting infrastructure deployed in US Government networks (FedRAMP, CMMC, etc.)
- Experience with SBOM generation tools and formats including Syft, Trivy, CycloneDX, and related vulnerability scanners such as Grype and Trivy.
- Experience with other FOSS and Commercial SDLC security and DevSecOps tooling including SCA, DAST, SAST, etc.
- Experience deploying and supporting self hosted LLMs.
- Understand how to safely expose public endpoints including UI and APIs using load balancers, CDNs, and other tools do deliver robust, secure, highly available services.
- Strong networking and runtime troubleshooting experience including the challenges in debugging lights out, dynamic, complex, remote environments including Kubernetes and airgapped.
Benefits of working @ Manifest
- 🔍 Help organizations get new-found visibility into their software, and be more secure!
- 🌎 Fully remote work (with potential for hybrid co-working)
- 🌴 Unlimited PTO (which we take seriously)
- 🏥 Medical/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents paid at 100%!
- 💵 Competitive salary & meaningful stock options
- 🏦 401(k) and retirement options
- ⚒️ Help get in at the ground floor of a well-funded, early stage startup!
- 🦄 Additional benefits to come (retirement, holiday gifts, etc.)
We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately and opportunities for growth are abundant at our scaling company. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?