Top Remote Senior Level DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in CO

Lead and grow a backend/platform engineering team building API-driven systems and core services. Own technical direction, architecture, reliability, and integration with product, data science, and infrastructure. Hire and mentor engineers, contribute to code and architecture, support incident response, and ensure scalable, secure, production-ready backend APIs and platform tooling.

Lead a CI/CD/IDP engineering team to improve release velocity, security, and compliance. Own Secure SDLC, software supply chain controls, GitOps-driven pipelines, developer self-service, pipeline performance/FinOps, and alignment with audits (FedRAMP/SOC 2). Mentor engineers, set roadmap, and deliver audit-ready release processes at scale.

Operate and automate large-scale data plane services (Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, etc.), build infrastructure for a devops model, troubleshoot production incidents, and ensure petabyte-scale data is secure, available, and efficiently managed.

The role focuses on implementing cost optimization solutions for cloud infrastructure through automation and collaboration across teams, enhancing FinOps practices.

Owner/operator of the platform that deploys and runs customer environments. Build and automate infrastructure as code, improve Kubernetes platforms, write infrastructure tests and documentation, enhance observability, reliability, security, and recoverability, and remove manual operational work through automation and pair engineering.

Own and implement platform initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience. Automate infrastructure with IaC, operate Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines, build developer tools, monitor platform resilience, participate in incident response, and influence architecture and processes as you grow.

Lead delivery for the Batch Infrastructure team: design, build, and operate reliable, scalable compute platforms for scheduled and on-demand batch workloads. Collaborate with product/design/analytics, define technical plans, ensure availability (monitoring/on-call), set code and design standards, and mentor engineers to improve delivery and quality.

Support and maintain high-availability on-air broadcast, media, and streaming systems across on-prem and AWS. Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and vendor coordination. Build reusable infrastructure patterns, perform reliability improvements, upgrades, and preventive maintenance. Develop runbooks, operational standards, and mentor team members. Participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule and occasionally support tier-1 events in person.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

Design and scale distributed, high-availability systems and platform architectures. Define frameworks, tooling, and standards, contribute hands-on to prototypes and production, guide teams on reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and align technical decisions with product and business priorities.

Build automated reliability and self-healing platform tooling to protect production at scale. Improve incident management, reduce alert noise, evolve observability (monitoring, SLOs, performance detection), and develop AI-driven operational automation. Partner with product teams to diagnose reliability gaps, drive incident prevention, and champion operational excellence and best practices across engineering.