Lead Software Engineer, DevOps - FiscalNote

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer, DevOps
Job Location: United States - Remote
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/fiscalnote/2281962b-fcca-4d2b-b6a7-5a76fad52cde
Job Description: About the Position
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building our Developer Experience team and owning critical infrastructure and services that support engineering across the organization. You'll define best practices, shape internal guidelines, and lead efforts to improve developer workflows, tooling, and system reliability. This role involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and delivering high-impact projects that power our core systems and services—ultimately enabling faster, safer, and more scalable product development.

About the Team
Our team has a wealth of diverse life and career experiences that allow us to think outside of the box and ahead of the curve. You will get the opportunity to drive the future through new products that delight, while working with a mix of product, design, application engineers, data engineers, and AI experts to devise, nurture, and implement cutting-edge solutions to continuously evolving engineering obstacles.

About You
Driven. Bold. Thoughtful. Although proud of how far you’ve come in honing your craft, you look forward to growing in your technical and functional leadership abilities. Even more excited to share your skills and experiences, you thrive in collaborative environments in which continuously evolving and increasing client demands serve as the catalyst for bold results. Feeding off of a highly competent engineering and product development culture, you yearn to contribute to the foundational growth of a company with unlimited growth and market capture potential.

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What To Expect In This Position
Design, implement, automate, maintain, and scale production environments, infrastructure, and shared services that power critical engineering systems
Build and own internal platforms, tools, and services that elevate the developer experience across the organization
Help shape engineering best practices, coding standards, and guidelines
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, data, and AI, to deliver scalable solutions
Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, observability, and deployment workflows
Leverage your extensive knowledge of security and compliance best practices to ensure that our systems and data are secure.
Continually monitor and ensure the health and uptime of our production environment and its dependencies.
Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and knowledge sharing
Research and integrate emerging technologies, including AI/LLM tools, into developer workflows
Participate in shaping the technical roadmap and strategic decisions for developer platforms
Help foster a culture of engineering excellence, inclusivity, and continuous improvement
What Sets You Apart
5+ years of professional experience in the software development industry
Solid backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, implementing asynchronous services, and managing distributed systems
Proficiency with AWS services and cloud infrastructure, with a working understanding of VPCs, IAM, EC2, ECS, and S3
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and pipeline tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins, with an eye toward automation and developer efficiency
Comfortable working with Linux-based systems, containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code platforms such as Terraform or Ansible
Hands-on scripting knowledge in Python, Bash, or JavaScript to streamline internal tools and workflows
Exposure to monitoring and observability stacks such as Signoz, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic
Understanding of relational and non-relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redshift
Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, contributing to architecture decisions, and aligning engineering with strategic goals
Basic familiarity with security best practices, networking concepts, and cloud-native identity/access systems
A track record of mentoring and developing team members, contributing to a culture of continuous growth and shared success
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience in backend or DevOps engineering