Staff Software Engineer, Platform

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that fuels Democratic victories and enables progressive causes to thrive. They're looking for a Staff Engineer to serve as a technical leader and force multiplier on the SRE team, driving observability strategy, building practices, and culture to make ActBlue's systems resilient at scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems/infrastructure engineering
• Deep expertise in observability tooling (we use Datadog: APM, RUM, DBM, dashboards, SLOs, alerting)
• Strong command of Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure (we run EKS via Flux on AWS)
• Experience defining and operating SLIs and SLOs in production environments
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional reliability initiatives and build organizational buy-in
• Strong incident management experience: on-call, post-mortems, blameless culture

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times