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The Role
The role involves designing and implementing infrastructure services, building automated systems, ensuring security and reliability, and mentoring a team of infrastructure engineers.
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About Arcana
At Arcana, we understand technology networks and what drives businesses forward. From cloud-native platforms and data-driven solutions to DevOps automation, enterprise-scale services, infrastructure, and digital transformation, we deliver innovative solutions that help enterprises become smarter, more scalable, and more secure.
We are growing rapidly and run a fully containerised, cloud-native platform on self-managed Kubernetes clusters in GCP, with around 3,000 nodes at scale. Our workloads and databases run on Kubernetes, and we operate a centralized, high-volume observability stack along with in-house alerting and access-request tools.
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer who enjoys self-managed open-source systems, solving problems at scale, and improving developer experience.
What you’ll do
At Arcana, we understand technology networks and what drives businesses forward. From cloud-native platforms and data-driven solutions to DevOps automation, enterprise-scale services, infrastructure, and digital transformation, we deliver innovative solutions that help enterprises become smarter, more scalable, and more secure.
We are growing rapidly and run a fully containerised, cloud-native platform on self-managed Kubernetes clusters in GCP, with around 3,000 nodes at scale. Our workloads and databases run on Kubernetes, and we operate a centralized, high-volume observability stack along with in-house alerting and access-request tools.
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer who enjoys self-managed open-source systems, solving problems at scale, and improving developer experience.
What you’ll do
- Operate and scale large self-managed Kubernetes environments on GCP, including workloads and databases.
- Manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Run and scale our centralized observability stack for high-volume metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting.
- Build and improve internal developer-productivity, deployment, alerting, and access-request tools.
- Work with developer, backend, frontend, security, and platform teams to reduce friction and improve release reliability.
- Troubleshoot production issues, automate repetitive work, and maintain platform-security best practices.
- Use LLMs and AI tooling efficiently for troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and improving engineering workflows.
- Write clear documentation and guide teams on DevOps best practices.
What we’re looking for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience; experience with large managed or self-managed clusters is a major plus.
- Cloud experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure; GCP is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Helm and at least one IaC tool, such as Terraform or Crossplane.
- Strong experience with open-source observability tools; Grafana is required, and Prometheus, Loki, Victoria or ELK/OpenSearch experience is a plus.
- Experience operating self-managed infrastructure or open-source platforms.
- Moderate Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with Docker and container-based application deployment.
- Understanding of cloud and platform security best practices.
- Experience improving developer productivity, internal tooling, or engineering environments.
- Experience using LLMs or AI coding assistants to solve real engineering problems.
- Experience supporting data engineering or data science teams is a plus.
Why join Arcana
At Arcana, we value passionate engineers who take ownership, enjoy solving hard problems, and want to grow with the company. We provide a platform to work on meaningful, large-scale challenges.
Here, you will have the opportunity to shape how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate software at scale, with the support of a collaborative and fast-growing team. (
Skills Required
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Deep expertise in Linux systems, distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go or similar languages
- Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD, and monitoring tools
- Leadership experience or strong mentorship history
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience scaling infrastructure for fast-growing startups
- Exposure to cloud-native security practices and zero-trust architectures
- Background in developer platforms or internal tooling
- Familiarity with data-heavy or ML-based systems
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The Company
What We Do
Arcana enables institutional investors to understand their portfolio risks, decompose single stock & book performance, drill into crowding, and isolate their idiosyncratic differentiation. Built on our proprietary crowding, ownership, factor risk, and performance datasets. The company's investors include D1 Capital, Duquesne (Stan Druckenmiller), Tiger Global, Abstract Ventures, GoldenTree Asset Management, Ryan Roslansky (CEO LinkedIn), and Akshay Kothari (COO Notion), among others.
