Principal DevOps Engineer

Plane's mission is to build the infrastructure the world's work runs on. Plane brings projects, knowledge, and requests into one open, adaptable platform. It began in public on GitHub at the end of 2022 and has grown into a work management platform used by teams around the world: 58,000+ stars, 5,000+ forks. Organizations run Plane as a managed Cloud service, on their own infrastructure, or inside fully isolated environments. Plane is backed by top investors and built across San Francisco, London, and Hyderabad.

Plane runs across environments we control and environments we never see: Plane Cloud, sovereign clouds, customer-managed infrastructure, self-hosted clusters, and fully air-gapped networks. As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will own the infrastructure and operational architecture that makes this possible. You will lead how we build, deploy, secure, observe, and operate Plane across these environments, from Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD to databases, incident response, compliance, and infrastructure cost. As Plane expands its agentic capabilities, you will also help build the infrastructure required to securely run AI workloads and open-weight models across cloud and customer data centers.

• Own Plane's infrastructure and reliability across cloud, multi-cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped deployments.
• Design and automate infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, secrets management, AMIs, and one-click deployments across AWS, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and other platforms.
• Own DevOps and SRE operations: observability, incident management, disaster recovery, database operations, migrations, and production reliability.
• Own infrastructure security, vulnerability management, SAST, compliance, data governance, and security standards.
• Drive infrastructure performance and cost optimization while improving deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience.

• 10+ years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, with production ownership of the systems you built.
• Ran AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, Argo CD, CI/CD, and secrets management in production.
• Operated multi-cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped enterprise software at scale.
• Operated and migrated large-scale Postgres, Redis, and other stateful systems across clusters.
• Fluent in Python, Bash, or similar, with working knowledge of networking, reverse proxies, observability, and infrastructure security.

• Ran bare-metal deployments and worked in restricted enterprise environments.
• Deployed and operated open-weight models across public cloud and on-premise data centers.
• Worked with serverless architectures and sandboxed execution environments.
• Built infrastructure for AI agents or agentic development environments.
• Operated infrastructure under compliance, data residency, or sovereign-cloud requirements.

• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, AMIs
• Delivery: Argo CD, GitOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DigitalOcean, Heroku
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Sentry
• Networking: Nginx, Caddy, Kong, Traefik, DNS, load balancing
• Data and security: Postgres, Redis, secrets management, SAST, vulnerability and container scanning