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Senior DevOps Engineer

Shanghai or Remote

About Horizons

At Horizons, we're building the infrastructure to power borderless teams. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

If you're interested in adding to our vision of enabling people to work in dream jobs, for every company, and from anywhere in the world, apply now!

We're committed to building a global, diverse team representing different and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability. Being a Horizoneer means being part of a growing, international family.

Overview

We’re seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to take a lead role in scaling and hardening the infrastructure that powers our global SaaS platform. You’ll work on high-impact initiatives that ensure the performance, reliability, and security of our systems as we rapidly grow. If you’re passionate about automation, observability, and driving DevOps excellence across teams, we’d love to hear from you.

Main Mission

  • Ensure the availability, reliability, performance, and security of our SaaS platform

  • Lead infrastructure automation efforts using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tools

  • Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and drive service quality improvements

  • Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster and safer deployments

  • Contribute to and continuously improve disaster recovery, backup, and incident response plans

  • Proactively analyze system capacity and forecast resource needs

  • Diagnose complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes

  • Collaborate with engineering squads to embed DevOps best practices in the SDLC

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Software or Infrastructure Engineering, with 5+ years in a DevOps or SRE role

  • Strong experience designing and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)

  • Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container orchestration at scale

  • Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go

  • Solid knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK, New Relic)

  • Experience with Github Actions, Jenkins or other CI/CD tools

  • Familiar with networking, load balancing, security groups, and IAM

Preferred Skills

  • Experience in a multi-tenant B2B SaaS environment

  • Understanding of compliance and security standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.)

  • Exposure to incident management processes and running game days/postmortems

  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence development teams

  • High ownership mindset, high autonomy and bias for action

  • Ability to juggle with priorities and navigate in unclear environments

  • Set high standards for yourself and help elevate the team standards

If you're passionate about scaling high quality infrastructure and enjoy working in a supportive team environment, we encourage you to apply and become a valuable part of our Product and Engineering team.

What it's like working at Horizons

Our service & product. We're a technology company, not an accountancy, payroll provider, recruitment firm or similar. We build a workforce management platform that allows our customers to hire the best talent in minutes, without worrying about compliance, payroll, or HR admin.

Our amazing team and environment. Working at Horizons means you're working on something very exciting: Allowing every person on the planet to have access to equal opportunities in living a fulfilled work and personal life. We believe in hiring from within and going the extra mile to retain top talent. As the company continues to grow extremely fast, you will be given the opportunity to develop and grow alongside.

Our benefits and perks. Being a Horizoneer means that you get the benefit of:

  • A competitive salary
  • An asynchronous working environment
  • A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid) - based on the nature of the job
  • The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time
  • Growth opportunities within the company
  • We provide all new joiners with the necessary hardware to ensure you have the tools you need to succeed from day one

How to apply

Please fill out the form and upload your CV in a PDF format.

If you don’t have an up-to-date CV but you are still keen to reaching out, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Need help? Get in touch with us at: hiring@joinhorizons.com

 

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