Staff DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Join Terawatt’s innovative technology team as a Staff DevOps Engineer and help drive the evolution of our platform to support one of the leading fleet EV charging solutions in North America. In this role, you will lead the development and reliability of Terawatt’s charging network management system and the capabilities that enable a high-quality site experience for customers.

🏢 About Terawatt Infrastructure

The once in a century transition to autonomous and electric vehicles is underway and will require a multi-trillion-dollar investment in energy and charging infrastructure, and the real estate to site it on. Terawatt is the leader in delivering large scale, turnkey charging solutions for companies rapidly deploying AV and EV fleets. Whether it’s an urban mobility hub, or a carefully located multi-fleet hub for semi-trucks, Terawatt brings the talent, capabilities, and capital to create reliable, cost-effective solutions for customers on the leading edge of the transition to the next generation of transport.

🎯 The Role

Working closely with the SVP of Technology, the Product team, and other technical partners, you will play a key role in expanding our platform and delivering meaningful value in a rapidly evolving industry. This role will help scale our cloud infrastructure and support organizational growth by implementing best practices that improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our charging infrastructure and software systems. You will also own the infrastructure behind Terawatt's internal tools and AI platform, partnering with our AI Product Manager and engineers to deploy, secure, observe, and scale agentic workflows across the company.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for DevOps and platform engineering, mentor engineers, and champion infrastructure standards across the organization.
• Lead planning for team goals that align with overall business goals and technology roadmap
• Lead and architect the evolution of our cloud infrastructure using Terraform, building resilient and scalable systems to support business growth.
• Maintain helm charts and deployment patterns that enable teams to manage the lifecycle of their services while adhering to established deployment standards.
• Build tooling to enable engineering teams to own the application deployment process through CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Drive security across every layer of the stack, using industry-standard tools to detect vulnerabilities and anomalies and automating SOC 2 compliance controls.
• Extend security controls to AI and agentic systems, covering risks such as prompt injection, over-permissioned tool access, and sensitive data exposure.
• Advance observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud across services, infrastructure, and AI workloads.
• Build developer tooling for local and remote container-based development, plus automated production-like scenarios for testing and release validation.
• Build and operate infrastructure for ML and internal AI workloads, including compute for model training, hosting for agents and MCP servers, and least-privilege access to internal data.
• Partner with the Data team on core data infrastructure, including our Databricks data lake and Kafka event streams.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Not specified