DevOps Engineer, Data Platform

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help us build a world-class data platform. Grammarly’s success depends on its ability to efficiently ingest over 60 billion daily events while using our systems to improve our product. This role is a unique opportunity to experience all aspects of building complex software systems: contributing to the strategy, defining the architecture, and building and shipping to production.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will lead cloud infrastructure design, automation, and management, focusing on Databricks and AWS, ensuring the platform is scalable, secure, and cost-effective. You will be critical in optimizing data processing and machine learning workflows, guaranteeing high performance and uptime for critical systems. Your expertise in Databricks and AWS infrastructure and a focus on cost management will be vital to driving platform efficiency.

You will work closely with data engineers, ML teams, and infrastructure engineers to automate and optimize workflows, manage infrastructure, and ensure the platform supports real-time analytics and machine learning at scale.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure focusing on Databricks, AWS, and Spark clusters to support data pipelines and lakes.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for deploying and managing Databricks clusters, data pipelines, and real-time data workflows.
• Use tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Ansible to orchestrate and automate infrastructure tasks, including provisioning, scaling, and monitoring.
• Implement and manage monitoring and logging systems to ensure data infrastructure's high availability, security, and performance, focusing on Databricks and AWS environments.
• Implement cloud security best practices, manage access control and encryption, and ensure the platform complies with data privacy regulations to ensure security and compliance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain cost management strategies, optimizing resource utilization across Databricks, AWS, and other data infrastructure components.

Qualifications

• Has 5+ years of experience in DevOps with expertise in managing AWS infrastructure and Databricks environments.
• Has strong experience with Spark clusters, data lakes, and managing large-scale data pipelines in a cloud environment.
• Is skilled in orchestration, monitoring, and logging, using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Airflow for managing cloud resources and data workflows.
• Understands security and compliance best practices, ensuring data infrastructure is secure, compliant, and aligned with privacy regulations.
• Has experience with cost management and optimization of cloud resources, with a focus on AWS and Databricks.
• Is a problem solver who enjoys building scalable, automated solutions that improve platform reliability and efficiency.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

Zone 1: $250,000 - $284,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).