Senior Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our small but impactful team focused on DevOps. You’ll be stepping into the role as a backfill for a senior engineer who’s moving on to new challenges within the company—leaving behind a legacy of useful tools, smart automation, and a collaborative spirit.

Our DevOps team’s mission is to maintain infrastructure stability, improve security and developer experience, and optimize cloud costs. This means hands-on work with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and tooling that makes our engineers' lives easier.

We work in Kanban, with daily standups and regular prioritization of our backlog. We value clear communication, ownership, and practical problem-solving. We’re investing in the future, and you’ll help shape where we go next.

Our Stack

• Cloud: AWS (primary), with some exposure to Azure and GCP

• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (with in-cluster monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana)

• IaC: Terraform + Terraform Cloud

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

• Monitoring: Datadog, Grafana + Prometheus

• Networking/CDN: Fastly (VCL knowledge is a plus)

• Other Tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of DevOps or related experience

• Solid experience with Terraform (including modules, workspaces) and Kubernetes

• Comfortable writing code

• Deep experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambdas)

• Strong communication skills—you’ll talk with other teams to understand their needs and help build the right solutions

• Preferred / Bonus Experience:

  • Expertise in Fastly CDN and VCL configuration

  • Terraform Cloud (workspace management, policies)

  • ArgoCD or other GitOps tooling expertise

  • Deep knowledge of DataDog APM and Grafana/Prometheus metrics

  • Background in cost optimization and security compliance

  • Prior work with Azure or Google Cloud Platform

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain the infrastructure that powers our applications.

• Own the stability and security of our AWS-hosted infrastructure—Kubernetes clusters, Terraform stacks, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring.

• Collaborate with our System Architects as well as feature teams to improve observability and incident readiness—training them on how to use our dashboards, logs, and alerts

• Build and maintain internal tools (Python or Go preferred) that make fellow engineers’ lives easier—think chat-ops bots, auto-scaling workflows, and deployment automation.

• Keep the lights green: upgrade versions, patch vulnerabilities, optimize cloud spend, and respond to incidents with calm, data-driven fixes.

• Evolve our observability stack (DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus) so teams can spot issues before customers do.

• Contribute to design docs and runbooks in Confluence; review code in GitHub; ship via GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, and Argo CD.

• Share on-call responsibilities (on a supportive, balanced rotation)

Why Join Us?

• Your contributions will help power an organization committed to challenging assumptions and pursuing truth through thoughtful, independent journalism that matters.

• You’ll have the opportunity to work on real engineering problems that improve developer efficiency and system resilience.

• You’ll work alongside experienced engineers with a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Future leadership opportunities as the team grows.

Salary minimum: $115,000; Salary maximum: $140,000

This is a Guild Position.

About The Atlantic:

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer.The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities.We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  

Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.