DevOps Engineer, WHOOP

• This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys automating security, improving developer workflows, and building scalable systems that make the secure path the easiest path
• 2-4 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, and CloudTrail
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code in production environments (Terraform preferred)
• Strong understanding of cloud security and reliability principles, including least privilege, logging/monitoring, resource isolation, and disaster recovery
• Experience with containerized platforms such as Kubernetes or Amazon EKS
• Proficiency with scripting or programming languages (Python, Go, Java, or Bash)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and automated security or reliability tooling
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex distributed systems
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
• You thrive on ownership and want to shape the foundation of WHOOP’s platform
• You believe security should enable developers, not block them, and strive to build guardrails over gates
• You enjoy automating manual processes and building scalable solutions to reduce risk
• You are curious about how systems fail and motivated to proactively prevent issues
• You value simplicity, reliability, and clarity in system design
• You collaborate well across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly
• Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply

Desirable

• As a DevOps Engineer II on the Cloud Security team, you will play a key role in building and operating the infrastructure, tooling, and guardrails that protect WHOOP’s cloud environments
• You will work at the intersection of security, infrastructure, and developer experience, helping ensure that secure-by-default practices are embedded into how systems are designed, deployed, and operated
• The Cloud Security team focuses on reducing risk across WHOOP’s cloud footprint by enforcing least-privilege access, strengthening IAM and secrets management, and detecting and preventing unauthorized access or lateral movement
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure cloud infrastructure in AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
• Build and manage IAM systems, access controls, and least-privilege policies to reduce risk and limit blast radius
• Implement automation and tooling to detect misconfigurations, privilege escalation risks, and anomalous behavior
• Build and maintain secure, reliable, and auditable AWS and Kubernetes environments across multiple accounts and services
• Improve secrets management, key rotation, and secure service-to-service authentication patterns
• Collaborate with platform, product, and data science teams to deliver resilient infrastructure that enables rapid product development and member trust
• Contribute to the automation of cloud operations, from CI/CD pipelines to monitoring and alerting systems
• Develop and enforce guardrails for cloud security and compliance, including IAM, backups, logging, and configuration management
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting for infrastructure and security events
• Participate in audits and compliance efforts by ensuring infrastructure is observable, auditable, and well-documented
• Drive best practices in reliability, performance, cost optimization, and security across the platform