Staff Engineer, Babylist
Site Reliability
Online universal baby registry
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Online universal baby registry
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help expecting parents get exactly what they need for the arrival of their new baby.
Role
Who you are
- Deep hands-on Terraform expertise — you own IaC, not just contribute to it
- Proven AWS experience at scale — EKS, RDS, cloud networking, DNS, CDNs, load balancers — you know the gotchas
- Experienced operating Kubernetes in production — you've debugged the hard stuff, not just deployed the easy stuff
- Comfortable designing and improving CI/CD systems — CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar; you care about developer velocity, not just pipeline uptime
- Strong observability instincts — Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, Cronitor — you build alerting that's actionable, not noisy
- Experienced with on-call and incident management — you've run the post-mortems and actually changed things afterward
- Comfortable supporting developers across local, staging, and production — you're a resource, not a gatekeeper
- You naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next
What the job involves
- Babylist's Platform team is the foundation every engineering team builds on — and this role is at the center of keeping it reliable, fast, and scalable
- As a Staff SRE, you'll own the infrastructure and reliability practices that support 9 million+ users and the engineers who build for them
- Babylist started as an e-commerce and registry platform, and we're actively growing beyond that — into health, media, mobile, and new product surfaces that don't exist yet
- The Platform team is the foundation that makes all of it possible
- This isn't a maintenance role — you'll be actively evolving how we build and operate AWS infrastructure, CI systems, and developer tooling
- You'll work cross-functionally across all of Babylist Engineering, which means your decisions have wide leverage
- Infrastructure ownership — manage and evolve our AWS environment using Terraform, keeping EKS clusters, databases, and core services current and performant
- CI/CD reliability — own the speed and reliability of our CI systems for the full Engineering org — every deploy starts here
- Developer support — be the person engineers turn to when environments break; unblock them fast across local, staging, and production
- Monitoring & alerting standards — establish and socialize best practices so the right people get paged for the right reasons
- Incident response — lead or support incident response, drive post-incident reviews, and close the loop so the same thing doesn't happen twice
- Platform strategy — contribute to architectural decisions that shape how Babylist's infrastructure evolves over the next several years
- Platform is the team every engineering team depends on — your work has outsized leverage across the entire product org, not just one area
- The infrastructure is solid but actively evolving — you're not inheriting chaos, you're shaping what comes next
- This is a staff-level role with real cross-team visibility — you'll influence how Babylist engineers build and ship, not just keep the lights on
- You'll work on systems that support millions of families at a high-stakes life moment — the scale is real and the product context makes the reliability work matter
Our take
Since its 2011 launch, Babylist has grown into one of the most highly rated baby registries in the US. The difference it offers is that it allows users to include products from any store in their registries. On top of this, the company’s model also focuses heavily on creating informational content, which allows it to generate ad revenue while building customer loyalty.
Originally scaled with fairly low venture funding, Babylist claims half of new parents in the US now use its services. This, given that the baby products industry is worth close to $90 billion, shows the company's immense growth and speaks to the impact it has made in the space.
Babylist has seen strong funding in the past, which has fuelled projects such as the launch of virtual showrooms and further expanded the company's presence. The company acquired Expectful, a health and wellness tool, in 2023 with the long-term vision of combining the two companies into a larger health and wellness media property that can help people navigate all aspects of parenthood from fertility to diapers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2021
$40m
SERIES C
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- HAPPIER WEEKENDS – We work to live, not live to work. That means we generally don’t work nights or weekends, and we offer 10 paid holidays throughout the year, in addition to your paid time off.
- PAID TIME OFF THAT WORKS FOR YOU – Life is unpredictable. Use your time off for what you need, whether that’s a vacation, family event or a day to unplug.
- PARENTAL LEAVE – We offer a flexible, 12-week paid parental leave policy.
- FLEXIBLE BENEFITS – Choose from benefits that support your working style, whether that's remote, in the office or something in between.
- HEALTH & WELLNESS – Wellness benefits include 100% paid coverage for medical, vision and dental for full-time employees.
- BABYLIST STORE DISCOUNT – All full-time employees receive a generous Babylist Store discount.
Company HQ
Emeryville, CA
Leadership
Natalie Gordon
(Founder & CEO)Former Software Engineer at Amazon. Initially founded Babylist as a side project and has since taken the company to a market leading status.
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