Staff Software Engineer, Evolve
$160-208k
+ Variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance
Making vacation rental easy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Making vacation rental easy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-208k
+ Variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make renting a vacation home easy for both guests and owners by offering verification and 24/7 support.
Role
Who you are
- 8-12+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
- Strong container orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Docker)
- CI/CD pipeline design and optimization (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Cloud platform expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure) — architecture, cost optimization, IAM
- Observability tooling experience (Sumo, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar)
- Track record improving reliability metrics (MTTD/MTTR, uptime)
- Security-conscious infrastructure design — secrets management, least privilege, vulnerability scanning, compliance awareness
- Strong proficiency using AI tools to accelerate code development, triage, and maintenance, balanced with strong fundamentals to critically evaluate AI-generated output
- Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Go, or Bash)
- Experience driving cross-functional technical initiatives and organizational adoption
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure considerations
- Experience owning production reliability for a business-critical service
- You have a knack for finding solutions to problems - and using a full arsenal of debugging tools
What the job involves
- We're looking for a highly motivated Staff Engineer to join our Engineering Team to help us build, secure, and scale the infrastructure that powers Evolve end-to-end
- You will be a sought-out engineer for the most impactful and broad-ranging problems — from driving DevOps transformation and architecting secure, reliable systems to setting the standard for how we adopt and critically evaluate emerging AI tooling
- This is a critical role where you will regularly influence the direction of platform architecture across multiple teams and domains, lead initiatives that tackle systemic tech debt, and ensure cross-functional dependencies and risks are well understood and effectively managed
- If you do your best work when the problems are hard, the stakes are high, and the work shapes how an entire engineering organization operates — this role is for you
- Drive DevOps transformation — lead CI/CD pipeline design and optimization, container orchestration strategy (Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure reliability — establishing patterns that scale across teams and reduce friction from code to production
- Champion a security-first culture — architect secure infrastructure by default: secrets management, IAM least-privilege, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls embedded as guardrails, not gates — and hold the bar across every system the team touches
- Apply AI tooling with rigor — leverage AI-assisted development to accelerate platform work while modeling the critical evaluation practices the team needs: validating output, stress-testing assumptions, and setting the standard for responsible AI use at the frontier
- Own platform reliability end-to-end — set and drive SLOs/SLAs for business-critical infrastructure, lead incident response, and systematically reduce MTTD/MTTR through automated observability, actionable alerting, and rigorous post-incident follow-through
- Lead infrastructure as code at scale — design scalable, reusable IaC modules (Terraform/Pulumi) that encode organizational standards, reduce toil, and proactively address broad-ranging tech debt through incremental, well-scoped initiatives
- Define and drive architectural direction — serve as the primary decision-maker for platform architecture across multiple teams and domains, regularly influencing systems design and ensuring alignment with engineering goals and organizational strategy
- Deliver high-leverage solutions using emerging technology — stay current with industry practices and the architectures powering modern platforms; bring that knowledge to bear in delivering the most impactful, broad-ranging solutions available — not just the familiar ones
- Optimize cloud architecture for reliability and cost — evaluate resource utilization, identify efficiency opportunities, and advise on tradeoffs across reliability, cost, and performance in close partnership with product and engineering leadership
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and risk — identify and surface cross-team dependencies early, ensure shared understanding of risk, and drive effective change management across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical floor — actively develop platform engineering craft through code review, architectural guidance, and clear documentation; recruit high-performing senior engineers and help the team grow into broader scope and impact
Our take
Evolve is a hospitality company offering 5-star experiences to rental customers in highly vetted properties. It takes a direct hand in guest experience management, from preparing and vetting properties, to fine-tuning stays in response to client feedback.
Launched in 2011, Evolve came to the game shortly after Airbnb. However, where Airbnb makes vacation rental possible for everyone, Evolve aims to make it easy. This is a difference it has made great pains to stress, perhaps a hangover from the misconceptions it faced from VCs when raising initial funds.
Evolve serves thousands of homeowners, with over 10 million guest customers. As home rentals continue to be popular, and with the market in need of quality control, Evolve’s 5-star focus enables it to stand out and secure a good position for the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$100m
LATE VC
May 2020
$25m
SERIES E
Total funding: $224.2m
Company benefits
- Onsite gym
- 401(k) matching up to 4%
- Free travel credit and discounted stays
- Monthly all-company meetings
- Happy hours
- Baseball games and holiday parties
- Community groups
- Paid leave for new parents
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Brian Wegan
(Founder & CEO)They studied at Boston College and the University of Virginia School of Law. They were an Associate Attorney at Gunderson Dettmer, and VP of Exclusive Resorts.
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