Remote New

Principal Engineer, DevOps

Harman
life insurance, sick time, long term disability
United States, Texas
Apr 22, 2025
Description & Requirements About the Role Join our team as a DevOps Engineer and help build the infrastructure and deployment systems for a revolutionary new music discovery platform. This role offers an opportunity to join the team in the early stages of the project under the guidance of experienced leaders with a proven track record in launching and scaling products. You'll play a critical role in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that support our platform's backend services, data pipelines, and audio streaming infrastructure. Our product is modern, challenging, and ambitious, delivering a first-class, highly engaging user experience that integrates content delivery, audio playback, machine learning, and recommendation systems. Join us in transforming the world of music consumption. What You Will Do Operate in a fast-paced, startup-like environment to launch a new business within Harman. Work with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. Make critical early-stage development decisions to ensure long-term success. Serve as a strong technical voice on backend engineering and devops considerations. Actively engage with product stakeholders in an iterative, dynamic environment. Develop a scalable, maintainable, and operable backend infrastructure to support both the launch and future growth. Collaborate closely with app developers and engineers to ensure project success. What You Need to Be Successful Experience: 10+ years across DevOps, infrastructure engineering, and backend engineering. Technical Skills: Strong understanding of modern DevOps tools and best practices. Programming Languages: Familiarity with Python, Node.js, Bash, and scripting languages. Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure. Deployment Technologies: Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Serverless architectures. Infrastructure Management: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. System Architecture: Knowledge of components such as databases, caches, event streaming, queues, and data warehouses. Automation: Proficient with tools for automating infrastructure, deployments, and system management. Bonus Points if You Have Bachelor's degree in computer science or another related field. A passion for music and interest in working on products that bring joy to music lovers worldwide. Experience working with machine learning workloads in production Experience with social products or recommendation systems Machine Learning / MLOps experience. What Makes You Eligible Position is 100% Remote You must be available for meetings and team interaction during typical continental US business hours. Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally. Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment. Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment #LI-Remote #LI-NW1 Pay Transparency $ 120,750 - $ 177,100 Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission. Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled. Benefits HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave. Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more. Important Notice: Recruitment Scams Please be aware that HARMAN recruiters will always communicate with you from an '@harman.com' email address. We will never ask for payments, banking, credit card, personal financial information or access to your LinkedIn/email account during the screening, interview, or recruitment process. If you are asked for such information or receive communication from an email address not ending in '@harman.com' about a job with HARMAN, please cease communication immediately and report the incident to us through: harmancareers@harman.com. HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Apply