About the role

What will you do at BRINC Drones?

About BRINC:

At BRINC, we are building the technology that will define the future of emergency response. As a vertically integrated U.S. drone technology company, BRINC designs and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous drone stations, command-and-control software, and advanced autonomy for public safety.

Today, BRINC deploys Drone as First Responder (DFR) networks that dispatch drones directly to 911 calls, providing real-time aerial intelligence before ground units arrive and helping first responders make faster, safer decisions.

BRINC serves more than 1,000 public safety customers across all 50 states, is the sole drone supplier to Motorola Solutions, and has raised more than $280 million from leading strategic and technology investors, including Motorola Solutions, Index Ventures, Sam Altman, Dylan Field, and others. BRINC is recruiting exceptional engineers to build the next generation of autonomous emergency-response technology, including flight-critical firmware and advanced pilot-assistance capabilities.

About this Role:

As our DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. You’ll build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines that power our worldwide real-time services. You’ll partner closely with software, hardware, and autonomy teams to improve system performance, incident response, and developer velocity.

Key Responsibilities

Own platform design, cloud services uptime, and on-call practices for worldwide real-time services
Build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
Implement observability (metrics/logs/tracing), alerting, and incident response/postmortems
Drive capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost/performance optimization
Collaborate cross-functionally to support live drone data streaming and customer workflows

Qualifications

Degree in CS or related field, with 5+ years operating production systems and building infrastructure
Strong software engineering fundamentals; comfortable writing production-quality code (Python/Node/Javascript, etc.)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud patterns
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and safe release processes
Excellent attention to detail around security, scalability, and performance
AWS infrastructure familiarity (networking, IAM, core services, and production operations)
Preferred Skills:
Experience building and supporting services that interacts with critical real-time edge devices (drones, robotics, autonomous vehicles)
Familiarity with containers and service orchestration
Experience with real-time/streaming systems or low-latency distributed services
Familiarity with security best practices (secrets management, encryption, least privilege)
Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment, take initiative, and communicate effectively
BRINC Culture Values:
Try the hard stuff
Be innovative - Invent the future
Move fast
Listen to end-users
Strive for excellence
Don’t build a dystopia
Be frugal
Save lives through technology
If you’re interested in this role and in joining BRINC, we hope you’ll apply. We’d love to review your application and get to know more about you!
BRINC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is resolute in cultivating an environment that promotes safety, diversity, inclusion and equity. We’re committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering every employee so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need, please let our recruiting team know - we strive to provide appropriate accommodation and assistance.

Benefits

and perks listed below may vary based on the nature of your employment with BRINC and/or the country within which you work

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families

401K plan

Maternity and paternity leave

Flexible Time Off (Exempt) / Paid time off (Non-Exempt)

Flexible work environment

Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound)

Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office)

Which skills does this role require?

DevOpsCloud infrastructurePythonNode.jsJavascriptInfrastructure as codeCI/CD pipelinesAWSObservabilityIncident responseCapacity planningDisaster recoverySystem performanceAutomationNetworkingCI/CDIAMReal-time streamingDrone technologyAutonomous systemsFirmwareScalabilityPerformance optimizationSoftware engineeringProduction operationsPublic safetyJavaScript

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