Senior DevOps Engineer

About Arena Club

Arena Club is building the number one digital marketplace for collectibles. We started by reinventing the hobby with the first-ever digital card show, and we are expanding into new categories so collectors can buy, sell, grade, and showcase everything they care about in one place. Our ‘Slab Pack’ product brought the mystery and chase of opening physical packs of cards to a digital format, and has led to Arena Club being one of the fastest-growing (and highly profitable) companies in Los Angeles. Our business was founded by 5x World Series Champion Derek Jeter and serial entrepreneur Brian Lee, who previously founded LegalZoom and The Honest Company, both of which are now public companies.

About The Role

We’re seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational tooling that support Arena Club’s platform. In this role, you will own critical components of our cloud and delivery environment, ensuring systems are secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient. You will drive infrastructure and automation initiatives end-to-end, improving system performance, deployment velocity, and developer productivity.

This position is designed for engineers who operate independently, consistently deliver high-quality solutions, and proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. As a trusted partner to engineering and product teams, you will help enable fast, safe, and resilient product delivery in a fast-paced environment where your work directly impacts system uptime, performance, and overall platform health.

What You Will Do

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for web, backend, and mobile applications to support reliable and repeatable deployment

Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability in a production environment

Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform across the AWS environment

Design and implement a secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architecture leveraging AWS services

Develop automation scripts and internal tooling to reduce manual work and improve operational efficiency

Establish and maintain advanced monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices using DataDog, CloudWatch, and Cloudflare

Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term reliability improvements

Identify infrastructure risks, performance bottlenecks, and technical debt, and drive proactive remediation

Partner closely with development teams to improve deployment workflows, system observability, and operational readiness

Promote DevOps best practices, reliability standards, and operational ownership across the Engineering team

Document infrastructure architecture, operational procedures, and system dependencies to support team continuity and resilience

Qualifications

6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering roles

Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS production environments

Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale

Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform

Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions in production systems

Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Bash, or similar)

Strong understanding of cloud networking, security best practices, and system reliability principles

Ability to independently own infrastructure initiatives from design through implementation and operation

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and operational impacts effectively

Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment while maintaining system stability and high operational standards

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting high-growth or high-availability production environments

Experience with cost optimization and performance tuning in AWS

Experience driving incident management, on-call practices, or reliability improvements

Experience mentoring engineers or influencing DevOps culture across teams

Tech Stack

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, ECR, etc.)

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

Package Management & Artifact Repository: Helm, ChartMuseum, ECR

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI or similar pipeline tooling

Secrets & Configuration Management: AWS SSm, AWS Secrets Manager, External Secret Operator

Monitoring & Security: DataDog, Sentry, Cloudflare, AWS CloudWatch

Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash

The base salary range listed is a guideline. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and the impact you bring. Total compensation includes base salary, bonus, and equity.

Salary Range

$140,000 — $180,000 USD