Lead DevEx Engineer

About Stellic

At Stellic, we empower universities to transform the student experience, helping millions of students navigate their academic journeys with clarity and confidence. As a fast-growing Series A/B startup, we are scaling our team to serve more institutions worldwide—while staying deeply committed to our mission, values, and high-performance culture.

Today, we are partnered with universities across 7 countries — including top institutions like Cornell, Columbia University, and Ohio State University — to empower 1M+ students to take control of their academic journey with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform gives students the tools they need to plan ahead, stay on track, and succeed, from day one through graduation

What Sets Stellic Engineers Apart

Stellic engineers combine a rare blend of curiosity, creativity, and business acumen with the ability to deliver pragmatic solutions at high velocity with uncompromising quality. Our mission is to help students, and our engineers always have that in mind as they are building.

Why This role

Stellic is at a significant crossroads. Having proved incredibly strong product-market fit, and having maintained enviable customer NPS ratings, it’s time to prepare for the next stages of our evolution. Pieces of our architecture have reached their expiration date, yet we continue to have ambitious roadmaps that will allow us to continue to improve the lives of students all over the world. We need someone who can lead us into the future by driving upgrades to our backend architecture while at the same time up-leveling our current engineering team’s ability to delight our users with new product capabilities.

We’re seeking a Lead DevEx Engineer with deep SRE / DevOps expertise to build, maintain, and optimize our engineering infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain internal platforms and toolchains, ensuring reliability, security, and performance across both single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures.

What you'll do:

• Architect, automate and maintain cloud infrastructure: Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure systems using convergence frameworks like Terraform, CDK, etc.
• Manage multi-tenant and single-tenant environments: Optimize production operations for complex product configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines: Ensure fast, reliable build and release processes, including canary capabilities.
• Incident management and observability: Drive response strategies for critical incidents, implement robust monitoring.
• Champion system resilience and performance: Advocate best practices for fault tolerance, security, and operational excellence.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of experience as a devex / devops or site reliability engineer operating at scale
• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to autonomously lead
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Proven success supporting both multi-tenant and single-tenant architectures
• Expertise with incident management and observability; bonus if experienced with Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, and DataDog
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments at scale
• A track record of delivering fault tolerance, reliability, security, and performance in everything you build
• Strong proficiency in scripting (in any language) and automation

Why Join

• Be part of a customer-centric team that is addressing the core issues in higher education via an expandable platform that is overwhelming loved by students and valued by administrators
• The opportunity to join at the ground level of a promising and developing organization, and build/lead a team critically responsible for its growth
• Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS
• Be part of a culture where ownership, new ideas, and creativity is celebrated
• Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup
• Flexible, outcome-based culture
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns

Compensation:  $200,000 - $260,000 base salary, plus equity

Work location: Candidates must be willing to work in-office in the Bay Area 3 days per week as part of our hybrid work culture.

Stellic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics to apply.