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BRINC is a vertically integrated U.S. drone technology company building autonomous emergency-response systems. The company designs and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous drone stations, command-and-control software, and advanced autonomy for public safety. BRINC operates Drone as First Responder (DFR) networks that dispatch drones directly to 911 calls, providing real-time aerial intelligence to first responders. The company serves over 1,000 public safety customers across all 50 states and is the sole drone supplier to Motorola Solutions.
As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of BRINC's production systems. You'll build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines that power worldwide real-time services. Key responsibilities include:
- Own platform design, cloud services uptime, and on-call practices for worldwide real-time services
- Build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
- Implement observability (metrics, logs, tracing), alerting, and incident response/postmortems
- Drive capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost/performance optimization
- Collaborate cross-functionally to support live drone data streaming and customer workflows
You'll partner closely with software, hardware, and autonomy teams to improve system performance, incident response, and developer velocity.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years operating production systems and building infrastructure
- Strong software engineering fundamentals; comfortable writing production-quality code (Python, Node.js, JavaScript, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud patterns
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and safe release processes
- Excellent attention to detail around security, scalability, and performance
- AWS infrastructure familiarity (networking, IAM, core services, and production operations)
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Experience building and supporting services that interact with critical real-time edge devices (drones, robotics, autonomous vehicles)
- Familiarity with containers and service orchestration
- Experience with real-time/streaming systems or low-latency distributed services
- Familiarity with security best practices (secrets management, encryption, least privilege)
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment, take initiative, and communicate effectively
