infrastructure
Posted 2 weeks agoPrincipal DevOps Engineer
at Headspace
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term technical vision for our cloud platform, advising leadership on architectural strategy, investment priorities, and systemic risk
- Set organizational standards for cloud reliability, observability, and operational excellence, including SLO/SLI frameworks, incident management practices, and the platform tooling that underpins them
- Proactively surface systemic risks in our AWS infrastructure, IaC practices, and delivery pipelines, and drive organizational action before issues become incidents
- Mentor Staff (T4) and Senior (T3) engineers and model the culture of engineering rigor, documentation, and cross-functional accountability expected across the organization
- Track record of mentoring Staff and Senior engineers, setting org-wide engineering standards, and building a culture of technical accountability and documentation rigor
Requirements
- A big goal needs talented leadership, so come join us and give your career a sense of purpose! What you will do:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- experience with demonstrated org-level technical impact
- Expert AWS knowledge across compute (EC2, ECS, Lambda), networking (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront), data (RDS, S3), and security (IAM, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager), with a track record of high-stakes architectural decisions
- Deep expertise in cloud reliability and operational excellence: SLO/SLI design, centralized observability, alerting strategy, and incident lifecycle management at production scale
- Experience with healthcare
- We strive to create a diverse & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do impactful work together.
Experience
- 8+ years of cloud platform or infrastructure engineering
Benefits
- Location: This role is open to candidates across the US. Candidates must permanently reside in the US full-time. Pay & Benefits :
- The anticipated new hire base salary range for this full-time position is $162,000-$225,000 + equity + benefits.
- For candidates based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle, a separate salary range of $[premium min to premium mid] applies, consistent with our location-based compensation philosophy.
- Our salary ranges are based on the job, level, and location, and reflect the lowest to highest geographic markets where we are hiring for this role within the United States.
- Within this range, individual compensation is determined by a candidate’s location as well as a range of factors including but not limited to: unique relevant experience, job-related skills, and education or training.
- Your recruiter will provide more details on the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
- At Headspace, base salary is but one component of our Total Rewards package.
- We’re proud of our robust package inclusive of: base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, generous parental leave, and more.
- Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process. About Headspace
- We combine evidence-based content, clinical care, and innovative technology to help millions of members around the world get support that’s effective, personalized, and truly accessible whenever and wherever they need it.
- They’re our shared commitment to building a more connected, human-centered team—one that’s redefining how mental health care supports people today and for generations to come.
- The chance to shape what mental health care looks like next Competitive pay and
- How we feel about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging:
- A dual relationship occurs when a mental health care provider has a second, significantly different relationship with their client in addition to the traditional client-therapist relationship—including, for example, a managerial relationship.
Contact
- For how how we will use the personal information you provide as part of the application process, please see: https://www.headspace.com/applicant-notice
Additional details
- Our mission at Headspace is to Provide every person access to lifelong mental health support.
- As a Principal DevOps Engineer, your leadership will be essential in helping us make the mission matter by guaranteeing a secure, reliable, and highly scalable platform for over 65 million users worldwide.
- You will be expected to own the outcome as you lead the charge in defining and refining our cloud strategies, driving technical excellence, and ensuring our infrastructure is efficient and poised for growth.
- We embrace the principle of iterate to great; you will continuously leverage cutting-edge technologies to simplify and optimize our cloud solutions, accelerating our ability to deliver innovative features and a better
- experience for our members. Join us and use your expertise to build a world where we can all care for our minds.
- You will support our efforts to bring innovative features to life, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and ensure our platform's reliability and scalability for over 65 million users.
- Serve as the senior solutions engineering authority for partner teams: translating cross-functional
- experience roadmap, identifying and closing systemic gaps in self-service infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, and operational visibility across engineering
- Translate complex infrastructure risk and platform strategy into clear, business-aligned narratives for Director-level and executive stakeholders to drive resourcing and prioritization decisions
- Expert-level Terraform and IaC platform leadership: organizational module strategy, policy-as-code, and self-service provisioning standards that scale across teams with varying infrastructure maturity