Principal DevOps Engineer

ABOUT US

Indie Campers is the leading campervan provider, dedicated to making road trips accessible and unforgettable for everyone. Innovation, product-led growth, and an unwavering commitment to our customers are at the heart of everything we do. With more than one million nights rented and travellers from 169 countries, we provide a single and trustworthy digital experience for road trips in the United States, Europe and Oceania, with different campervan configuration options and even the chance to buy one of our vehicles.

Our ambitions are big, and so are the challenges we embrace. We are scaling our technology organisation to unlock the next wave of automation- and AI-powered experiences that will delight customers and empower employees worldwide.

THE ROLE

As Principal DevOps Engineer, you’ll be the technical lead for our platform reliability and developer experience. You’ll own the north star for CI/CD, runtime, observability, cost efficiency, and incident response across all products, mentoring DevOps/SREs and partnering with Security and Product Engineering.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?

• Define and evolve platform architecture (Kubernetes/ECS, IaC, networking, secrets, service mesh).
• Lead CI/CD strategy (multi-env, progressive delivery, canary/feature flags).
• Lead the DevSecOps discipline by ensuring solid infrastructure security with automatic controls
• Own observability (metrics/logs/traces), SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and on-call excellence.
• Drive cost governance and performance tuning across AWS/GCP.
• Raise developer experience (golden paths, reusable modules, scaffolds, inner-source).
• Coach engineers; lead incident reviews and reliability roadmaps.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• 8–12+ years in DevOps/SRE; staff/principal scope.
• Deep AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/containers, Terraform, Linux, networking.
• Proven CI/CD design (GitHub Actions/GitLab), artifacts, environments.
• Observability expertise (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry); incident leadership.
• Security hygiene (least privilege, secrets, SBOMs, supply chain).
• Excellent communicator, mentor, and cross-org influencer.

CORE VALUES AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES

• Customer First: Relentless in providing the best service at the best price to all customers.
• Ownership: Proactively take ownership and deliver on our goals.
• Committed: Work together, as a team, for the long-term.
• Learn, build and structure.
• Be precise and go deep.

Are you ready to Go Indie?