Job Closed
This listing is no longer active.
Instead is revolutionizing the tax industry with our AI-powered software, designed to simplify and optimize tax strategies, calculations, and filings for businesses and accountants. Our platform leverages artificial intelligence to streamline the entire tax process, making it more efficient and cost-effective for companies of all sizes. Our current focus areas include: Tax Strategy Optimization: We offer AI-powered analysis to identify potential tax savings opportunities across U.S. tax strategies. Our system automatically applies relevant strategies based on each user's unique financial situation, maximizing tax benefits. Tax Calculations (Coming Soon): Our platform will provide precise tax calculations based on taxpayer scenarios, covering 63 U.S. income tax jurisdictions. This feature aims to reduce the time required for tax return preparation from 8-24 hours to less than 10 minutes. Tax Filing (Coming Soon): We're developing a streamlined, AI-driven tax filing process that will simplify this complex task for businesses and tax professionals alike. Our vision extends beyond the U.S. market, with plans to expand our services to cover tax strategies and calculations in most countries worldwide. At Instead, we believe in making sophisticated tax management accessible and affordable. Our pricing structure starts at just $16 per month for businesses, with options tailored for sole proprietors, various business entities, and specialized needs. For accounting firms, Instead Pro offers a powerful tool to expand services and deliver greater value to clients. Our AI-driven approach enables tax professionals to focus on complex issues and client relationships while automating routine tasks. Join us in revolutionizing the tax industry. Whether you're a growing startup, an established enterprise, or a tax professional, Instead is designed to maximize your tax efficiency and fuel your financial growth. Experience the future of tax management with Instead.
Director of DevOps
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California | Canada
Posted
126 days ago
Salary
$0
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Director of DevOps
Instead (instead.com)
About Instead Instead is a tax platform designed to help taxpayers and tax professionals collaborate to save money on taxes and file tax returns. As the first company in decades to receive IRS approvals to E-file 1040, 1041, 1120, 1120S, and 1065 — we're re-inventing a complex category. Founded in 2023, Instead combines LLMs with tax law to make tax management a continuous, proactive process rather than a dreaded annual deadline. Instead's investors include Sarah Guo from Conviction (conviction.com) and many of our customers who believe in our mission and vision. The Instead team comprises talented leaders from leading tax, financial services and fintech companies — Gusto, Intuit, Zenefits, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer, Bloomberg — as well as top tax & accounting firms such as PwC, BDO, RSM, and KPMG. Instead was a 2024 Innovation Award Finalist in CPA Practice Advisor. Instead's CEO, Andrew Argue, is a CPA and has been named Top 100 Most Influential People in the Accounting Profession twice - Ones To Watch and CPA Practice Advisors 20 under 40. What You'll Do Own and manage our AWS infrastructure across environments (staging, production, internal tools) for a high-availability tax platform Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable cloud architectures aligned with SOC 2 and other compliance requirements Benefits Own core infrastructure at a product-critical layer instead of being a ticket taker on a giant platform team Work on a modern stack at the intersection of tax, fintech, and AI, where reliability and security really matter Help shape DevOps/Platform practices, tooling, and standards from an early stage, with real influence on architecture decisions Partner directly with experienced engineers, tax experts, and leadership Join a well-funded company with strong industry investors and partners, building the first new IRS-approved e-file platform for major return types in decades Grow your career in a role that blends cloud engineering, security, and reliability while shipping visible, meaningful work Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/D/V We trust our team with sensitive information, so all candidates who receive and accept employment offers must complete a background check before joining us. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Job Requirements
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (primarily Terraform) for repeatable, auditable deployments
- Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines to streamline build, test, and release processes for our engineering teams
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues across our services, networking, and data layers
- Drive observability and reliability through logging, metrics, alerting, and incident response practices
- Collaborate with engineering to design systems that are secure, cost-effective, and easy to operate in production
- Take ownership of core infrastructure components (VPCs, IAM, networking, storage, containers, etc.) and continuously improve them
- What You'll Need
- 3+ years of hands-on experience managing production infrastructure in AWS
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Solid understanding of AWS core services (EC2, RDS, ECS/EKS or similar, S3, IAM, networking, security groups, load balancers)
- Experience operating and hardening Linux-based systems in production
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deploying containerized workloads
- Experience working within security/compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar)
- Proven track record of owning systems end-to-end rather than isolated tasks
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and performance issues
- Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating closely with engineers and leadership
- Nice to Have
- AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator)
- Experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience in at least one programming language (ideally Python) for tooling, automation, and integrations
- Background supporting SaaS or fintech products with high security and uptime requirements
- Experience setting up and tuning observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch)
- Experience with secrets management, key management, and identity management at scale
Related Guides
Related Categories
Related Job Pages
More DevOps Engineer Jobs
DevSecOps Engineer
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD)Excellence in Forensic Science Management through Leadership and Innovation
• Work alongside DevOps and engineering teams to ensure our platforms, repositories and CI/CD pipelines are secure by default while remaining easy to build, test, and deploy against • Identify security risks through tools, audits, and monitoring, and drive them to resolution — whether that means changing a policy, updating infrastructure, or improving a pipeline • Take ownership of the security posture across multiple AWS accounts and continuously improve it over time • Design and maintain security guardrails around IAM, logging, monitoring, and encryption • Manage repository-level security scanning (SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection) using tools such as Aikido or similar, and ensure findings are actionable • Partner with DevOps teams to secure Kubernetes clusters, with a strong focus on Rancher • Improve security visibility through monitoring, logging, and reporting • Automate security controls and validations using Infrastructure as Code and scripting • Help document security standards, patterns, and operational runbooks
Senior Site Reliability Engineer – 100% Remote
dotCMSCreate, manage, optimize, and scale content across channels with dotCMS
• Build the "Golden Path": You will own and evolve the build pipelines, dev setups, and development containers that allow our Stream Aligned teams to ship code independently and safely. • Institute Observability (O11y): You will own the strategy and tooling for Alerting, Monitoring, and Tracing, empowering developers to see inside their own applications. • Drive Reliability via SLOs: You will help Stream Aligned teams define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to back their code pipelines and observability tools. • Enable, Don't Gatekeep: You will act as a consultant and mentor ("on loan" to teams when necessary) to help them tackle complex infrastructure challenges while ensuring final decision-making and ownership remains with the Stream Aligned team. • Future-Proofing: You will help explore and implement new capabilities, including our AI toolchain adoption and modernization efforts. • Incident Management: Participate in an on-call rotation with a focus on blameless post-mortems and systematically removing the root causes of fatigue.
Senior DevOps Engineer Azure
Zup InnovationWe create digital assets to build, grow and accelerate your applications with efficiency, security and scalability.
This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Você atuará na evolução da arquitetura cloud e das práticas de engenharia de plataforma, garantindo que os ambientes em Azure sejam seguros, escaláveis e eficientes. A posição tem forte atuação em automação, observabilidade e confiabilidade, apoiando múltiplos times de engenharia e contribuindo para decisões arquiteturais em sistemas distribuídos. Buscamos uma pessoa com visão sistêmica, autonomia técnica e capacidade de elevar o nível de maturidade DevOps dos times. - Definir e evoluir a arquitetura cloud em Azure, promovendo segurança, confiabilidade e boas práticas; - Implementar e manter infraestrutura como código com Terraform, suportando ambientes escaláveis e resilientes; - Garantir estratégias eficientes de CI/CD, estruturando e otimizando pipelines de entrega; - Estruturar e aprimorar práticas de monitoramento, rastreabilidade e observabilidade com Datadog; - Apoiar times de produto e engenharia na resolução de incidentes e melhorias contínuas de infraestrutura; - Atuar como referência técnica em cloud, segurança, redes e automação, disseminando conhecimento; - Participar de decisões arquiteturais para sistemas distribuídos; - Monitorar e otimizar custos de infraestrutura cloud, buscando eficiência operacional. Qualifications - Experiência sólida com arquitetura e administração de ambientes em Azure; - Domínio de Kubernetes (AKS) em ambientes produtivos; - Experiência avançada com infraestrutura como código (Terraform); - Criação e evolução de pipelines CI/CD com automações de entrega; - Experiência com monitoramento e observabilidade, especialmente Datadog; - Conhecimento em segurança para ambientes cloud (IAM, redes, políticas de acesso); - Vivência em arquitetura distribuída e automação de operações; - Conhecimentos em redes, protocolos e troubleshooting em cloud. Requirements - Boa comunicação para explicar decisões técnicas a diferentes públicos; - Visão sistêmica sobre impactos técnicos no negócio; - Capacidade analítica para resolução de incidentes complexos; - Experiência apoiando múltiplos times ou atuando como referência técnica; - Vivência com outras clouds (AWS, GCP); - Certificações relevantes em Azure ou Kubernetes; - Proatividade na busca por automação, eficiência e melhoria contínua. Benefits - Modelo de trabalho remoto por padrão, priorizando a sua liberdade e responsabilidade; - Liberdade para trabalhar de onde quiser; - Horários flexíveis; - Auxílio Educação; - Ferramenta própria de desenvolvimento de carreira; - Guildas internas e grupos de estudo e interesse; - Plano de saúde; - Plano odontológico; - Parceria na compra de medicamentos; - Telemedicina disponível 24x7; - Terapia online gratuita; - Licença maternidade estendida; - Licença paternidade estendida; - Vale-refeição e alimentação; - Seguro de vida; - Vale-transporte; - Auxílio home office; - Auxílio Creche; - Auxílio plano telefônico; - Participação em Lucros e Resultados.
Lead Configuration Management Engineer
Switzerland Global EnterpriseWe support Swiss SMEs in their international business and help innovative foreign companies to establish in Switzerland.
• Define and support nuclear industry configuration management practices, document management, and change control processes for new commercial nuclear power plant projects. • Drive specification, development, implementation, and operation of assigned CM processes consistent with GEH and regulatory requirements. • Develop in-depth knowledge of CM processes and tools for nuclear plant projects; coordinate GEH project CM processes with other organizations. • Assist with engineering configuration management implementation activities inside GEH, in partnership with Information Technology (IT) and support CM interface activities at suppliers. • Master the project Information Management System and engineering design tool suites necessary to maintain CM equilibrium. • Coordinate project CM processes and tools with those of major suppliers. • Support Engineering and Project Management in planning, assessment, reporting and tracking activities and in preparation of related presentations and reports. • Work within a diverse team environment to execute work plans and schedules as applicable for mission success. • Perform work in compliance with policies and procedures. • Support GEH quality requirements, including participation in design reviews, and initiating and responding to Corrective Actions. • Provide on-time, quality delivery of documentation packages in accordance with contract requirements, business procedures, and regulatory agency guidelines.
