Wonolo (Work Now Locally) is disrupting the $140BN temporary staffing industry. Founded in 2014, Wonolo's mission is to help people find consistent work. Through our two-sided tech marketplace, we connect hundreds of businesses in need of front-line workers with 2 million underemployed workers in local markets across the United States, within minutes. Wonolo has raised over $200M in funding which will continue to help us empower the in-demand workforce by democratizing access to flexible work, opportunities to learn new skills, a living wage, and comprehensive portable benefits and perks.
We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. You will be employed by a third-party legal entity authorized to do business in the location in which you reside and you will provide contractual services to Wonolo’s Engineering team. In this role, you will help define and evolve the infrastructure architecture, operational standards, and engineering best practices that support our development teams. This role will have a broad impact across infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, and developer enablement.
You will work closely with engineers across the organization to improve system reliability, scalability, and efficiency, while helping build a strong foundation for sustainable growth. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, self-driven problem solver who is comfortable leading technical initiatives, proposing pragmatic improvements, and implementing solutions with a high degree of ownership.
You will work extensively with technologies such as Nomad, Kubernetes, Buildkite, Terraform, Ansible, and Datadog to build and operate resilient, scalable, and well-observed systems.
We welcome qualified candidates located anywhere in Latin America #LI-Remote.
What you'll do:
- Own the design and execution of projects that strengthen infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and operational maturity across the organization
- Establish and drive infrastructure standards, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices across teams
- Build and operate the automation that powers provisioning, configuration management, deployments, and core platform workflows
- Lead improvements across CI/CD, observability, and developer enablement to increase engineering velocity and system confidence
- Take ownership of complex infrastructure and production issues, driving both immediate resolution and sustainable long-term fixes
Who you are:
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible
- Programming or scripting experience in Python or Ruby and Bash
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite, CircleCI, Jenkins, or similar
- Strong knowledge of Docker and container-based systems
- Experience with Kubernetes required; experience with Nomad is a strong plus
- Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort with shell scripting
- Familiarity with Datadog or similar monitoring and observability platforms
- Strong troubleshooting and systems thinking skills
- A strong preference for automation, standardization, and repeatable processes over manual workarounds
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to work independently with a high degree of ownership
If you have read up to this point, we hope you are excited about this opportunity to work at Wonolo! Even if your experience does not check every bullet point, we still highly encourage you to apply. The best hires do not always check off every box of a job description.
Nice to haves:
- Background in platform engineering or developer enablement
- Familiarity with Temporal or similar orchestration and workflow frameworks
- Hands-on work with PostgreSQL administration, operations, or performance management
- Exposure to AI observability, monitoring, or operational support for AI-driven systems
Benefits and Perks:
- The opportunity for growth in a mission-driven and well-funded start-up
- Health insurance through one of our valued partners
- Company laptop
- Option to be paid in US dollars
- Access to no-cost on-demand mental health support, including counselling, mindfulness and meditation, and wellbeing courses
- We encourage a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible schedules, an open vacation policy, and the ability to work from anywhere in LatAm (no more commutes!)
- Team outings, happy hours, company off-sites, and more!
About Wonolo:
Wonolo is a two-sided job marketplace that serves over 2 million front-line workers, providing them access to flexible and consistent job opportunities across the United States within minutes, at companies such as Peloton, Coca-Cola, Neiman Marcus, Papa John's, and thousands more.
We are a remote-first company with 200+ full-time employees, and quickly scaling our team within the United States, Canada, and Latin America. We are well-funded and backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Leeds Illuminate, among others.
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