Beacon Software is a permanent capital holding company which acquires and grows essential businesses. We are a profitable series B+ firm that combines great technologists, operators and M&A professionals to accelerate the scale of the ambition of the dozens of businesses we own and operate. We are supported by capital from tier-1 venture capital, crossover, and endowment investors as well as the founders of the leading technology companies from the past decade.
We are growing our team in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. Apply below.
We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team and help lay the foundation for scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across our growing portfolio of software businesses. This role is ideal for someone with strong cloud engineering expertise, a pragmatic mindset, and a passion for enabling teams to build and deploy with confidence. This is an exciting and entrepreneurial opportunity to join a fast-paced technology company with a steep growth trajectory.
Key Responsibilities- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other clouds
- Establish CI/CD pipelines and ensure fast, reliable deployments across multiple portfolio companies
- Set up and manage container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
- Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows (e.g., Grafana, PagerDuty)
- Partner with portfolio engineering teams to drive best practices in reliability, observability, and security
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to portfolio engineering teams
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Proven hands-on experience with cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong background with infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.
- Experience setting up and managing secure secrets and credential stores (e.g., Vault)
- Solid understanding of incident management tools like PagerDuty
- Blend of startup agility and big-company maturity preferred
Our Values at Beacon Software
- Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.
- Honesty: We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.
- Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.
- Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.
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What We Do
Beacon is the permanent home for Main Street software and services supporting the real economy. We buy, build, and grow exceptional vertical software businesses, preserving their legacy while expanding the scale of their founders’ ambitions.
Our model is different. Unlike private equity, we don’t buy to flip. We hold forever, investing in product, customers, and teams for the long term. Founders who join Beacon gain more than capital: they access in-house engineering, AI, design, and fintech expertise, as well as a network spanning Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Main Street.
We simplify the back office, accelerate growth with proven playbooks, and give founders the freedom to focus on what they do best: building great software for their markets.
Every company under the Beacon umbrella remains independent, with its own brand and customers, but benefits from shared resources and immediate value creation. Our approach has already helped portfolio companies win major RFPs, modernize technology stacks, and expand market share.
Beacon was founded by experienced operators and investors from companies like D1 Capital, Instacart, Sequoia Capital, and Databricks who believe ambitious software deserves a forever home. Our success is measured founder by founder, company by company, and we’re just getting started.
