Sr Staff Software Engineer

As a Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer at Armis, you will play a critical role in the deployment, monitoring, and management of our complex, high-scale infrastructure in a security-first, regulated environment. This is a high-impact role with the autonomy to integrate new technologies and make key architectural decisions that shape the future of our platform.

You’ll work with a massive microservices ecosystem, diverse data stores, and one of the most advanced security configurations in the industry. Your mission: ensure seamless uptime, scalability, and security across all systems—while enabling rapid, automated provisioning and innovation.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient production infrastructure across cloud environments.

• Drive system-wide automated alerting and monitoring strategies for infrastructure and database environments.

• Own the uptime and reliability of large-scale systems, including databases and distributed services.
  Collaborate with DevOps, Engineering, Product, Security, and Operations teams to scale and secure our cloud-native platform.

• Enforce security and compliance best practices (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC 2) throughout the SDLC.
  Evaluate and lead proof-of-concept projects for new tools or services that strengthen system performance and security posture.
  Build Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

• Maintain detailed documentation and provide on-call support for incident resolution and recovery.

Requirements

• US Citizenship (Required)

• 5+ years of experience managing Linux servers in a global, cloud-based environment.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud services.

• 5+ years of experience with Python and Kubernetes in production environments.

• Proven experience managing in production, including troubleshooting cluster performance, auto-scaling, and service reliability.

• Expertise in large-scale systems operations and database reliability engineering (DBRE).

• Strong understanding of automated alerting, incident triage, and monitoring best practices.

• Deep knowledge of networking (e.g., routing tables, service mesh, CNI).
  3+ years experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Ability to independently manage tasks, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience with AI Ops platforms or ML-driven observability tools, resource optimization, and security incident response.

• Knowledge of LLM-based infrastructure automation or code generation tools (e.g., for IaC policy validation, documentation generation).

 

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with government-related projects requiring US citizenship.

• Background in security and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, GDPR, or SOC 2.
  Experience in sensitive or restricted environments (e.g., FIPS, SELinux, air-gapped).

• Prior roles focused on database reliability engineering

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $190,900 - $298,000 plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.