Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

Deep hands-on Terraform expertise — you own IaC, not just contribute to it

Proven AWS experience at scale — EKS, RDS, cloud networking, DNS, CDNs, load balancers — you know the gotchas

Experienced operating Kubernetes in production — you've debugged the hard stuff, not just deployed the easy stuff

Comfortable designing and improving CI/CD systems — CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar; you care about developer velocity, not just pipeline uptime

Strong observability instincts — Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, Cronitor — you build alerting that's actionable, not noisy

Experienced with on-call and incident management — you've run the post-mortems and actually changed things afterward

Comfortable supporting developers across local, staging, and production — you're a resource, not a gatekeeper

You naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next.

Infrastructure ownership — manage and evolve our AWS environment using Terraform, keeping EKS clusters, databases, and core services current and performant

CI/CD reliability — own the speed and reliability of our CI systems for the full Engineering org — every deploy starts here

Developer support — be the person engineers turn to when environments break; unblock them fast across local, staging, and production

Monitoring & alerting standards — establish and socialize best practices so the right people get paged for the right reasons

Incident response — lead or support incident response, drive post-incident reviews, and close the loop so the same thing doesn't happen twice

Platform strategy — contribute to architectural decisions that shape how Babylist's infrastructure evolves over the next several years

Platform is the team every engineering team depends on — your work has outsized leverage across the entire product org, not just one area

The infrastructure is solid but actively evolving — you're not inheriting chaos, you're shaping what comes next

This is a staff-level role with real cross-team visibility — you'll influence how Babylist engineers build and ship, not just keep the lights on

You'll work on systems that support millions of families at a high-stakes life moment — the scale is real and the product context makes the reliability work matter

We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge

We believe in exceptional management and invest in tools and opportunities to connect with colleagues

We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives

AI is intentionally embedded in how we work, create, and scale—supporting innovation and impact

Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement

We believe technology and data can solve hard problems

We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement

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