Senior DevOps Engineer

About Us

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid, and we're achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.

At Sydecar, we're not just a platform; we're a trusted partner in venture capital. We're dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience, empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks, from automating banking, ensuring compliance, handling contracts, managing taxes, to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

Join us at Sydecar, as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.

Locations: New York City, San Francisco, Seattle (Hybrid – choose any 2 days each week to work from the office)

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineer) to own our cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and core security and compliance foundations. This is a direction setting role for someone comfortable being the primary DevOps person in a small team. You will work closely with product and internal tooling engineers to make environments consistent and reliable, and you will act as our main contact with Google Cloud. If you like creating standards, automating repetitive work, and helping a startup move faster, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

• Design, provision, and maintain production and other infrastructures in Google Cloud using Terraform

• Standardize Docker based workflows so services run consistently across development, staging, and production

• Define and document the path from laptop to cloud so engineers can self serve environment setup and deployments

• Configure and maintain networking and security including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, DNS, and IAM or service accounts

• Support core services such as Postgres and Redis including connectivity, access management, backups or snapshots, and basic performance

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting so issues are visible, auditable, and easy to troubleshoot

• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks with scripts and tooling to increase engineering velocity

• Work with engineering on SOC 2 related infrastructure controls and configuration hygiene

• Own communication with Google Cloud support or consultants and drive recommended changes to completion

• Produce and maintain runbooks, standards, and infrastructure documentation so knowledge is shared

What We Are Looking For

• 7 or more years in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform roles

• Experience in a startup or high growth environment where you owned outcomes and operated with limited direction

• Strong hands on experience with Terraform in production, including modules and environment separation

• Strong hands on experience with Docker and container based development

• Cloud experience with GCP preferred, or strong AWS or Azure experience with willingness to complete GCP training or certification in 1 to 2 months

• Working knowledge of Postgres in cloud environments including networking, access, and backups

• Solid networking fundamentals including VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS

• Comfort with Unix or Linux systems and shell scripting

• Ability to work in some isolation while still providing leadership and clear guidance to application engineers

Our Tech Stack

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with flexibility for strong AWS or Azure candidates who can ramp on GCP quickly

• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code

• Docker as the container standard

• PostgreSQL and Redis for data and services

• Unix or Linux, shell scripting, and cloud CLI tools

• SOC 2 aligned security, firewall, and networking configuration

Bonus If You Have

• Experience with Redis or similar key value stores

• Experience with CI or CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, or CircleCI

• Exposure to Kubernetes, GKE, or other container orchestration platforms

• Experience supporting SOC 2 or other compliance frameworks from an infrastructure perspective

• Prior experience being the primary point of contact with a cloud provider

You Will Enjoy These Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus program

• PTO and sick leave

• Generously covered medical, dental, and vision

• Stock options program

• 401k program with 4 percent employer match

• Personal data plan reimbursement

• Annual professional development stipend

• Annual wellness stipend

• Workspace allotment

• Commuter benefits

• Life insurance

• Parental leave for all employees

Sydecar’s values

Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities, behaviors and interactions.

Be Committed

As a team, we rise to meet challenges and recognize that we become stronger and develop character when facing adversity.

Be Excellent

We measure our success not just by what we achieve, but by how we achieve it—through integrity, creativity, elegance, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Excellence is not just doing things well—it's looking for ways to do them better.

Be Humble

Humility is our key to personal and professional growth. We appreciate that great ideas can come from anywhere, regardless of seniority, pedigree, or experience. We care more about collective outcomes than who gets credit or who does what. We try to not let our ego cloud our judgment.

Win Together

Winning is no accident. It is the result of collective hard work, perseverance, sacrifice, and most of all, loving what we do. Winning requires that we give extra—sometimes winning calls for late nights or extra effort, and we show up for clients and each other with urgency and heart. While excellence is a journey, winning is a destination.

Sydecar is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sydecar are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Sydecar will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Sydecar encourages applicants of all ages.