Senior DevOps Lead

Department: Engineering

Location: United States - Remote, Albania - Remote, Bulgaria - Remote, Croatia - Remote, Hungary - Remote, Montenegro - Remote, North Macedonia - Remote, Romania - Remote, Serbia - Remote, Bolivia - Remote, Chile - Remote, Colombia - Remote, Ecuador - Remote, Paraguay - Remote, Peru - Remote, Uruguay - Remote, Mexico - Remote

Compensation: $40K – $170K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Multiple Ranges

Employment Type: FullTime

Senior DevOps Lead

Location: Remote - US (Preferred), EU (Balkan Region), LATAM

About Worldly

Worldly is the world’s most comprehensive impact intelligence platform — delivering real data to businesses on impacts within their supply chain. Worldly is trusted by 40,000 global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to provide the single source of ESG intelligence they need to accelerate business and industry transformation.

Through strategic and meaningful customer relationships, Worldly provides key insights into supplier performance, product impact, trend analysis, and compliance. When a company wants to change how business is done, we enable that systemic shift.

Backed by a dedicated global team of individuals aligned by values, Worldly proudly operates as a public benefit corporation with backing from mission-aligned investors. Want to learn more? Read our story.

About The Role

We're seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Senior DevOps Lead to take ownership of our infrastructure and lead our transition from purely external DevOps services to a hybrid internal & external team model. This is a critical leadership role that requires both strategic thinking and the ability to roll up your sleeves—you'll spend 30% of your time leading and mentoring a team of 9 contractors with varying skill levels and 50% architecting and implementing solutions yourself, with 20% for high-level thinking and operational planning. Ideal candidates have a strong background in network and *nix systems operations and software engineering, and have settled into DevOps as their current passion.

You'll report directly to the VP of Engineering and have an immediate impact on infrastructure stability, security posture, and operational excellence across our AWS-based platform. Our infrastructure is mature with well-established Infrastructure as Code practices, and is actively growing to support new business needs and product capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Lead by example—architect and implement infrastructure solutions using Terraform and AWS best practices

• Take ownership from external DevOps team, stabilizing operations and establishing internal team processes

• Define project scope, break down complex initiatives, and guide contractors through execution

• Evolve our IaC practices and ensure consistency across the growing infrastructure

• Own AWS infrastructure security, compliance, and cost optimization

• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Collaborate with engineering teams to support application needs and performance goals

• Develop infrastructure roadmap to support scaling and new product requirements

• Mentor contractors with varying skill levels, elevating team capabilities

• Evolve and refine monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes

We'd Like To See

• 10+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with at least 3 years in a lead or senior role

• Deep expertise in AWS services including ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, databases, networking, and security

• Strong Terraform experience—you write clean, modular, reusable IaC

• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (ECS/EKS)

• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild)

• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (DataDog, CloudWatch)

• Experience with multiple production database technologies such as CouchDB/MongoDb, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL in production environments

• Strong understanding of network architecture, security best practices, and systems operations

• Proven ability to lead teams through both project definition and technical execution

• Excellent communication skills—you can translate technical concepts for various audiences

• Self-starter mentality with ability to work independently and drive initiatives to completion

It Helps If You Have

• Exposure to GCP and/or Azure cloud platforms

• Background managing external contractor teams

• Experience scaling infrastructure in growing organizations (100-300 employees)

What We Can Offer You

• Comprehensive benefits package - 100% of employee premiums covered by Worldly

• Statutory benefits provided in accordance with local labor laws for employees outside the U.S., administered through Deel

• Company-sponsored 401 (k) with up to 4% match for US-based employees

• Growth Opportunities

• Equipment Stipends

• Unlimited PTO

• Paid company holidays

Life at Worldly

Our team is motivated to transform the way products are made. By helping our customers succeed in a new era of sustainable production, we can build technology that makes a difference on a planetary level.

Our team represents over 15 countries and brings unique experiences from technology to farming to the table. Surround yourself with kind, enthusiastic, and dedicated people who put collaboration and growth at the center of our shared goals.

Benefits and Perks

• Earn a competitive salary and performance-based bonuses. Get healthcare, retirement matching, and equity for US employees.

• Use the office stipend to get the supplies you need. Combat Zoom fatigue with Flex Fridays.

• Flexible time off. Take the time you need to recharge. Our culture encourages team members to explore and rest to be their best selves.

• We're remote, not lonely. Join the culture committee, coffee chats, or a variety of other interest groups.

Travel Notice

​​Roles at Worldly may require occasional travel to support business needs, including but not limited to team collaboration, customer engagement, or company events.

Equity Statement

We believe it’s essential to reflect the diversity of those we strive to serve. True innovation happens when everyone has room at the table, including the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel. We’re dedicated to building a culturally and experientially diverse team that leads and works with empathy and respect.

Compensation Overview

Base Salary

• $130,000 - $170,000 USD (US)

• $50,000 - $70,000 USD (Balkan Region)

• $40,000 - $60,000 USD (South America)

15% Annual Bonus

Equity Stock (ICU) Option Program

*Final compensation details will be determined based on a wide variety of factors, including experience and location. These factors will be evaluated and considered by Worldly throughout the entirety of this process.

*For candidates located outside the U.S., the salary range listed in USD will be paid in the local currency equivalent at the time of offer using the then-current exchange rate.