Job Description

Locus The Software Factory

DevOps Engineer 3

Who We Are

We're Locus. We move the world's goods.

Our algorithms have optimized over 1 billion deliveries. We're the enterprise TMS trusted by IKEA, Unilever, UPS and some of the largest supply chains on the planet. Backed by Ingka Group (IKEA's parent), we're building a composable, multi-modal transportation management system that's redefining logistics technology.

We're not hiring to fill seats. We're hiring builders who build for other builders.

What You'll Do

You take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure, design, scale, and operate it. This goes beyond execution. Here's what that looks like day to day:

Own the design, architecture, and reliability of Locus's cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Aliyun, supporting multi-region, global deployments.

Lead the evolution of our CI/CD ecosystem, optimize and refactor our Jenkins-as-Code setup for scalability, performance, and developer efficiency.

Drive the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) journey end-to-end, migrate existing cloud resources, alarms, and configurations fully into code with strong versioning, review, and rollback practices.

Partner with engineering teams to identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks, deep dives into memory, CPU, networking, and storage constraints.

Define and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices, improve MTTR, system observability, and operational readiness.

Lead initiatives around cost optimization, security hardening, and capacity planning, keep infrastructure efficient and compliant as the platform scales.

Act as a technical mentor for junior DevOps engineers and raise the overall DevOps maturity across teams.

What You Bring

Must-Haves

7+ years of experience as a DevOps / Platform Engineer in a SaaS or product-led company.

Strong hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS / Azure / GCP) with exposure to multi-cloud or global deployments.

Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines — preferably Jenkins, or equivalent tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI.

Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.

Strong background in monitoring and observability, CloudWatch and similar tools, actionable alerting, SLIs/SLOs.

Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to reason about distributed systems and infrastructure trade-offs.

Comfortable working cross-functionally, influencing design decisions, and operating in a high-ownership environment.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Strong Signals - We Actively Look for These

Degrees don't tell us much. These do:

You've designed and operated infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers and geographies.

You've led a full IaC migration, from legacy click-ops to fully versioned, reviewed, and automated.

You've measurably improved MTTR through better observability and incident response and you have the numbers.

You've built something on your own time, open source, side project, internal tool.

You've contributed to a top open-source project.

You've filed a patent or published research.

You've written technical content others reference, or spoken at a conference.

You've competed in or completed something grueling ultra-marathon, Ironman, competitive programming, hackathon wins.

We don't fill seats. We hire builders who build for other builders

What We Don't Care About

Which college you went to. Seriously.

Whether your resume has Big Tech logos.

How many years you've held exactly this job title.

We care about what you built, why you couldn't stop, and how you think.

The Stack

• Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Aliyun (multi-region, global) CI/CD: Jenkins-as-Code, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Observability: CloudWatch, SLI/SLO frameworks, incident response tooling
• Platform: Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch Scale: 350+ deployments · 30+ countries · billions of deliveries · high-volume daily computations

Why Locus is different

This isn't a perks list. It's a contract between Locus and people who build.

1. Inference Compute Budget - For Builders Who Ship: Every engineer gets $5,000/year in AI/LLM inference credits, The budget is the baseline, you need more we have it for you!
2. Patent Premium - Your Name on It. Permanently: File a patent at Locus, your name stays on it for Eternity, Check our Patents and patents holders
3. Lifetime Royalty Program - Build the Builders: Build an internal tool that automates a process or makes us more efficient? Locus pays you a royalty, not just while you're here, but even after you leave.
4. Excellence Beyond Code Ironman, ultra-marathon, national-level sport, FIDE 2000+, we see these as signals of craft, grit, and finishing. They matter to us.
5. Open Source Bounty Active contributor to a top-1000 GitHub repo? Joining bonus. Active maintainers get dedicated 20% time to keep contributing.
6. Conference Speaker Fund Accepted to speak at a global conference? We cover travel, registration, and stay. No questions asked.
7. 1 Billion Deliveries on Your Resume: You can truthfully say: "My code optimized 1B+ deliveries across 30+ countries." We verify it.
8. Alumni Network That Doesn't Forget You: Leaving Locus? You still get a reduced compute budget ($1K/yr), alumni summit access, referral bonuses, and a fast-track to re-hire.

Apply?

Send us:

• Your GitHub / portfolio / anything you've built - required. More important than your resume.
• A one-liner on why Locus interests you.

Email: careers@locus.sh

"We don't hire the best people and tell them what to build. We hire builders and get out of their way." - Locus Engineering