Senior DevOps Engineer

About A24 and A24 Labs

A24 is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our A24 Labs team, a technology startup within A24 Films. A24 Labs is focused on innovation and leveraging technology to enhance A24's acclaimed entertainment offerings.

A24 is an acclaimed global entertainment company known for producing and distributing films, television series, documentaries, music, publishing, and consumer products. Established in New York in 2012, A24 has cultivated a library of over 150 films and 50 TV series, earning critical and commercial acclaim with more than 21 Oscars, 20 Golden Globes, and 18 Emmys. Renowned for groundbreaking hits like Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Uncut Gems, as well as television successes such as Euphoria, Beef, and Ramy, A24 has developed a passionate fanbase and expanded into ventures like Half Magic and the Cherry Lane Theater. Upcoming projects include Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, and The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

The Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer in A24 Labs, you’ll care deeply about the systems you build and the teams who rely on them. You’ll exercise autonomy and sound judgment while collaborating closely with stakeholders and engineers, sharing knowledge, and mentoring others to deliver resilient, scalable, secure infrastructure together. This role is based in our New York City office, though remote unicorns (who check most of the qualifications) are welcome to apply.

Initial Projects And Responsibilities

• Improving CI/CD speed, reliability, and consistency across services
• Standardizing and auditing Docker images and build pipelines
• Designing and refining ECS autoscaling alarms
• Improving Postgres performance, connection pooling, and query efficiency
• Implementing and refining feature-branch deploy workflows
• Improving CloudFront and edge caching strategies
• Strengthening production / staging parity across environments
• Expanding observability and alerting coverage
• Improving PII scrubbing and data-handling safeguards

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience as a platform engineer
• Strong hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS
• ECS management, scaling, and optimization
• CloudFormation (Copilot a plus)
• Cloudfront, edge caching, and WAF management
• CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
• Docker build optimization, production/development parity
• DevOps automation and shell scripting
• Observability, monitoring, and alerting (CloudWatch a must, HoneyBadger a plus)
• Postgres (RDS, performance tuning, connection management, replication)
• Production / staging parity, feature-branch deployments, and consistent build pipelines
• Asynchronous task processing (Celery, SQS, MQ)

Nice-to-Have

• Python and/or Django experience
• Celery and background job systems
• Frontend build tooling (e.g. Vite)
• AWS Copilot experience

Compensation and Benefits

Our target salary range for this role is between $125,000 to $175,000. Actual starting salary within the range will depend on various considerations, including: work experience, skills, specializations, and training. This role is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, including both cash and equity components, competitive healthcare, as well as other employee benefits. We do not use formal job titles internally and similarly named positions may have different compensation levels.

A24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all kinds of candidates.

Application Process

To apply, please send a personal (non-AI assisted), informal email to seth at a24films dot com (required subject line: "labs devops"). In the email please include an explanation for why you're interested, qualifications met, which boxes you check (and which ones you do not, where you're located (in person interviews strongly preferred for those in NYC) and please attach your CV or LinkedIn.

Key skills/competency

• AWS
• DevOps Automation
• CI/CD
• ECS
• Postgres
• CloudFormation
• Docker
• Observability
• CloudFront
• Security