Mainspring Energy
Senior DevOps Engineer
Menlo Park, CA · Senior
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About the role
- The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities.
- Your work will directly impact our system's reliability, developer velocity, operational autonomy, and overall engineering efficiency.
- Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement.
Responsibilities
- System Design & Technical Execution
- Build & Redesign: Lead the creation of new infrastructure projects and drive the comprehensive redesign of aging legacy systems to modern, cloud-native standards
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect, write, test, and manage robust IaC templates using Terraform across multi-cloud environments
- Process Modernization: Identify bottlenecks in our engineering workflows and design, document, and implement entirely new processes to optimize our DevOps maturity
- Advanced Automation & Agentic Workflows: Build robust automation frameworks using Python (primary language) and AI agents to automate routine support, maintenance tasks, log analysis, and incident triage, eliminating manual operational toil
- Collaborative Design Reviews: Partner with Staff and Senior Staff Engineers to review architectural designs, ensuring alignment with company standards, advanced patterns, and AI/agent capabilities
- Documentation & Shared Knowledge Champion: Author clear system architecture diagrams and runbooks. Build and maintain centralized AI prompt/skill libraries and tooling to elevate team capabilities
- Security, Support & Mentorship
- Automated Support & Developer Advocacy: Serve as a technical advisor for dev teams, building AI-assisted support tools (e.g., automated troubleshooting agents) to drive developer self-service
- Build and maintain centralized AI prompt/skill libraries and tooling to elevate team capabilities
Requirements
- Technical Expertise:
- Cloud Architecture: Deep production experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and/or AWS (Amazon Web Services)-ideally both
- Infrastructure as Code: Advanced proficiency in Terraform, including writing modular, reusable, and secure configurations
- CI/CD Pipelines: Deep expertise in constructing and optimizing enterprise-grade pipelines, with a strong preference for GitLab (and/or GitHub)
- Containers & Orchestration: Production-grade experience managing Kubernetes (K8s) clusters, helm charts, and containerized microservices using docker images
- Deep production experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and/or AWS (Amazon Web Services)-ideally both
- Advanced proficiency in Terraform, including writing modular, reusable, and secure configurations
- Deep expertise in constructing and optimizing enterprise-grade pipelines, with a strong preference for GitLab (and/or GitHub)
- Scripting, Software Engineering & AI Integration:
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, paired with practical experience leveraging AI, LLM tooling, or agentic frameworks (e.g., Google ADK, LangChain, or custom tool-calling agents) for operational automation
- Containers & Orchestration:
- Production-grade experience managing Kubernetes (K8s) clusters, helm charts, and containerized microservices using docker images
- Serverless & Microservices:
- Hands-on experience architecting and deploying solutions utilizing AWS Lambdas, GCP Cloud Run, and container automation frameworks
- Professional Competencies:
Compensation
- This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
This listing is sourced directly from Mainspring Energy's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.