Staff DevOps Engineer at Hubstaff – Remote Americas — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Hubstaff's Staff DevOps role is one of the most nomad-friendly senior engineering positions on the market — the company has been fully remote for over a decade and explicitly calls itself async-first. That said, there is a meaningful timezone constraint: candidates are preferred between Eastern (UTC-5) and Mountain (UTC-7) time zones, which limits flexibility to the Americas corridor.
For nomads, this means:
- Medellín, Colombia (UTC-5) — ideal fit. Cost of living is roughly $1,200–$1,800/month for a comfortable lifestyle; a senior DevOps salary of $140K–$180K USD goes extremely far. Colombia also offers a digital nomad visa for stays beyond 90 days.
- Mexico City, Mexico (UTC-6) — squarely in the preferred timezone window. Monthly costs run $1,500–$2,200 for a comfortable setup. Mexico's Temporary Resident visa is straightforward for remote workers.
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (UTC-3) — slightly outside the preferred window but feasible if you keep morning overlap hours. Cost of living is very low due to the favorable exchange rate.
The role requires on-call awareness (disaster recovery, platform resilience), so full async flexibility isn't guaranteed — expect some overlap during US business hours. No travel perks or coworking stipends are explicitly mentioned, though Hubstaff's own product is built around tracking and paying remote workers, signaling a mature remote infrastructure internally.
At Hubstaff, our mission is to empower people to have their most productive workday. We do this by providing the industry-leading workforce analytics and time tracking platform for remote and distributed teams.
We've been fully remote for over a decade—long before it became a trend—and we continue to believe that remote work represents the most significant shift in the modern workplace since the advent of the PC. Our platform helps more than 200,000 global users track time, gain visibility into work, manage schedules, and automate payments with transparency and accountability at its core.
We're a product-led company with a winning culture, strong momentum, and a long-term vision: to become an essential part of every remote company's tech stack. And we're just getting started.
The RoleWe're hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to help shape the future of Hubstaff's cloud platform.
This is a high-impact, fully remote role for an experienced infrastructure engineer who enjoys building secure, scalable, and highly automated systems. You'll partner with our CTO, architects, and engineering teams to improve reliability, security, developer experience, and platform scalability across our global SaaS platform.
This isn't a traditional operations role. We're looking for someone who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating everything possible, and building the internal platform that enables engineering teams to move faster.
If you enjoy building secure, scalable cloud platforms, automating infrastructure, and solving complex engineering challenges, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Do- Design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
- Build and improve Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud networking environments.
- Standardize infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and GitOps practices.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, and Better Stack.
- Strengthen security, disaster recovery, and platform resilience.
- Drive platform strategy while remaining hands-on with implementation.
- Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service infrastructure.
- You've built and operated production cloud infrastructure at scale using AWS (GCP experience is a plus).
- You're an expert in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, and modern GitOps practices.
- You've built reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
- You have experience supporting production PostgreSQL, Redis, and distributed systems.
- You've implemented monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, or similar platforms.
- You understand networking, IAM, encryption, disaster recovery, and cloud security best practices.
- You're comfortable supporting applications built with Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, or Node.js.
- You enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems through automation and ownership.
- Helped scale infrastructure for a high-growth SaaS product.
- Built or evolved a platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps function.
- Led cloud modernization or infrastructure transformation initiatives.
- Supported applications built with Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, or Node.js.
- Worked with GitOps, service mesh technologies, or serverless platforms.
- Built infrastructure for data platforms or ETL workloads.
- Thrived in a fully remote, async-first engineering culture.
- Work alongside experienced engineering leaders on a platform used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
- Own projects from architecture through implementation.
- Join a highly autonomous, remote-first engineering culture built on trust and ownership.
- Work with modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and observability tooling at scale.
- Make a direct impact on platform reliability, developer productivity, and customer experience.
Remote
We're hiring candidates across North America, Canada and Latin America, with a preference for those located between the Eastern and Mountain time zones to support collaboration across our engineering team.
Compensation & Employment TypePermanent, full-time
Competitive compensation based on experience, skills, and location.
Inclusion at HubstaffHubstaff is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members, regardless of background, identity, or lived experience.
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