Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
DroneDeploy sits in a modern SaaS segment where cloud reliability directly shapes product credibility, especially for platforms that ingest large volumes of visual data and increasingly incorporate AI workflows. A Senior DevOps Engineer here is positioned at the intersection of core SaaS platform operations and the practical realities of supporting AI-enabled capabilities in production, where repeatability, observability, and safe delivery matter as much as feature velocity.
For a long-term SaaS career, this kind of role compounds into durable platform expertise. Ownership of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD standards, and incident response builds a portfolio that translates across subscription businesses: reducing operational toil, improving release confidence, and creating internal “golden paths” that enable multiple product teams. The added exposure to MLOps lifecycle needs also strengthens fluency in how SaaS companies operationalize model training and evaluation alongside traditional services.
This role tends to suit engineers who like shaping systems and workflows across teams rather than staying confined to a single application surface area. It fits someone comfortable making tradeoffs under ambiguity, documenting patterns, and influencing through enablement. The remote setup and on-call component also signal a preference for self-directed execution with predictable collaboration windows.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About DroneDeploy
DroneDeploy powers field teams with robotics and AI. As the only reality capture platform that combines robotic automation, AI agents, and a truly unified system, DroneDeploy allows critical industries to operate with speed and confidence.
From construction and energy to agriculture, the world’s largest companies use DroneDeploy to simplify field operations, improve safety, and make smarter decisions, faster. By combining aerial drones, 360 and fixed cameras, ground robots and proprietary AI, we’re bringing the power of automation and visual intelligence to all stakeholders, from the field to the boardroom.
At DroneDeploy, we thrive in a mostly remote-first culture rooted in innovation and impact. We’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work in the SF Bay Area and named one of America’s Great Places to Work—but what truly sets us apart is the experience you gain: solving real-world challenges with cutting-edge technology, surrounded by teammates who are as passionate as they are supportive. Our team is bold, mission-driven, and building something that matters. We foster a culture where a variety of perspectives drive smart decisions, and where growth—both personal and professional—is part of the journey. Whether it’s flexible schedules, family-friendly benefits, or our strong track record of internal promotions, we invest in people as much as we do in product. If you’re looking to be part of something ambitious, authentic, and transformative, you’ll find your place at DroneDeploy.
Role Overview
The Senior DevOps Engineer is a key member of DroneDeploy’s DevOps organization, partnering closely with software engineering teams to ensure our platform is reliable, scalable, and efficient for customers across construction, energy, agriculture, and other field-based industries.
Reporting to the Manager of DevOps, this role focuses on owning complex areas of our cloud infrastructure, leading improvements to our CI/CD pipelines, and building the internal tools that keep code shipping smoothly and safely.
This person will operate at the forefront of cloud infrastructure and ML-enabled features, helping to support our primary product and new AI capabilities, including work in ML Ops, model training, and evaluation.
This person will operate at the forefront of cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled features, driving the rollout of AI tooling across the organization. You will be instrumental in enabling developer teams to integrate AI into their workflows, managing the end-to-end MLOps lifecycle, and ensuring the robust evaluation and reliability of our primary product’s AI capabilities.
They will regularly navigate technical ambiguity, evaluate multiple approaches, and drive projects from design through rollout with limited oversight, shaping reliability, observability, and developer experience across the engineering organization.
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Work Environment
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Work Model: Remote (work from home).
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Time Zone & Collaboration: Collaborate with a distributed DevOps team across US, UK, and New Zealand, with an expectation to overlap at least four hours with US Pacific Time (9 AM – 5 PM) most days and to participate in an on-call rotation for production emergencies.
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Business Travel: Occasional domestic travel (typically no more than once per quarter) for company events or team gatherings, subject to business needs.
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AI tooling: Engineering, including DevOps, uses AI tools extensively to boost productivity and quality. This role is expected to actively use AI-assisted coding and analysis tools and to experiment with new AI workflows in areas like CI/CD, observability, and ML Ops so we can measure and raise AI adoption across R&D.
Responsibilities
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Own key areas of DroneDeploy’s cloud infrastructure, improving reliability, performance, and usability of the platform and related services.
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Design, build, and evolve infrastructure-as-code to provision and manage scalable, secure environments used across engineering teams.
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Lead improvements to CI/CD pipelines and release workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), creating templates and tooling that make deployments faster, safer, and more consistent for product teams.
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Champion observability by implementing and refining monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards that give teams clear visibility into system health and customer impact.
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Partner with engineers across multiple product areas to streamline code deployment, promote a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility, and define “golden paths” for how services are built, tested, and operated.
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Identify areas of operational toil or fragility and implement durable automation and process improvements that reduce recurring incidents and support burden.
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Participate in the production support rotation, including incident response, troubleshooting high-impact issues, and contributing to post-incident reviews and follow‑through actions.
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Contribute to ML Ops efforts by collaborating with AI-focused teams on running machine learning processes in the cloud, supporting model training, evaluation, and related infrastructure needs when required.
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Share expertise through code reviews, documentation, pairing, and mentoring, helping other engineers adopt best practices in infrastructure, deployment, and reliability while continuously learning new tools and techniques.
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Use AI tooling in day‑to‑day engineering work (e.g., code generation, test scaffolding, troubleshooting) and provide feedback that helps improve how DroneDeploy uses AI across R&D.
Requirements
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Extensive experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to design, deploy, and operate production systems.
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Experience operating Kubernetes clusters in the cloud at scale.
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Strong experience writing and maintaining software applications (not just scripts), with proficiency in Python and/or Golang and comfort contributing to shared repositories and services.
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Solid hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform (or similar tools like Pulumi or CloudFormation) to manage complex environments.
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Proven track record building, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or comparable solutions.
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Strong Linux system administration fundamentals, including networking, performance tuning, and security basics in a cloud-native environment.
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Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex production issues spanning application, infrastructure, and third-party services, using observability tools and structured problem-solving.
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Experience collaborating closely with software engineering teams, influencing patterns and practices through clear communication, documentation, and enablement rather than formal authority.
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Comfort operating in distributed, remote teams, taking initiative to move projects forward independently, surface tradeoffs, and propose solutions in areas like CI/CD, reliability, or cost efficiency.
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No specific drone certification is required for this role.
Why Join DroneDeploy?
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Impact at scale: Help ensure world-class reliability for a global reality-capture platform used on high‑visibility projects in construction, energy, agriculture, and more. Your work on infrastructure, pipelines, and observability will directly affect how often and how safely teams can ship product.
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Senior‑level scope: As a P4 Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll own substantial slices of our platform—such as core CI/CD frameworks, infrastructure domains, or reliability initiatives—and be trusted to lead end‑to‑end improvements across design, implementation, rollout, and continuous refinement.
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Modern, AI‑driven environment: Work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and AI, supporting ML Ops workflows and partnering with teams rolling out AI-enabled features and developer tooling like DX AI Code Insights and other AI-based coding tools.
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Strong DevOps culture: Join a tight‑knit DevOps group that values simplicity, empathy for users (internal and external), thoughtful tradeoffs, and continuous learning. You’ll collaborate with experienced Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers and cross-functional leaders in TechOps, Platform, and Product Engineering.
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Growth & learning: Build deep expertise in areas like Kubernetes, large‑scale observability, ML Ops, and compliance‑driven reliability work (e.g., GDPR data lifecycle, incident and outage practices), with opportunities to mentor others and grow toward Staff-level or leadership paths over time.
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Flexibility: Enjoy a remote‑first role within the U.S., with reasonable expectations for overlapping collaboration hours and limited travel, so you can do focused engineering work while staying closely connected to a distributed, high-performing team.
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Employee Offerings & Benefits
(Benefits may vary by location and role)
These are just some of the perks you'll enjoy—there's more to discover once you join us!
Culture of Innovation & Collaboration – Thrive in an environment that values creativity and teamwork.
Drone Certification – Get certified and gain unique, hands-on skills with our full backing.
Flexible Work Arrangements – Enjoy autonomy with remote-first options and schedule flexibility.
Paid Family Leave – Take the time you need to support your family during life’s most important moments.
Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage – Plans designed to support your well-being.
Career & Growth Development – Build new skills and unlock opportunities through continuous learning.
Flexible PTO – Take time off when you need it to recharge—we trust you to manage your time well.
Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone great? Refer them and earn a bonus when they join our team.
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