Senior / Principal DevSecOps Engineer — Contractor (LATAM / EU)

Company Overview

Hubstaff helps organizations around the world optimize productivity and workforce operations. Trusted by 95,000+ businesses, our platform powers time tracking, team management, project insights, and payroll automation.

We’ve been a remote-first company for over a decade — and we’re on a mission to help distributed teams work smarter, not harder.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior / Principal DevSecOps Engineer to help us automate, secure, and scale our infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll design and build robust, scalable cloud infrastructure, strengthen our security practices, and enable our engineering teams to deliver with confidence. You’ll work closely with our CTO, architects, and cross-functional teams, shaping technical direction and building long-term solutions.

We value engineers who thrive in remote-first environments, care deeply about automation and reliability, and want to grow with our team for years — making a lasting impact on our products.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure.

• Automate cloud provisioning using Terraform and Helm.

• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop).

• Implement monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

• Design infrastructure for data lakes and ETL pipelines.

• Contribute to security best practices, incident response, and disaster recovery planning.

• Implement advanced security measures, including IAM policies, VPC design, and encryption.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure secure and reliable systems.

Our Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails, Rust, Go, NodeJS · AWS, GCP · Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm · Kubernetes (EKS), Docker · PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Redis, Memcached · Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Cloudwatch, Betterstack · GitHub Actions, ArgoCD · Slack, Jira, Outline

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and maintaining scalable Linux-based environments.

• Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Strong background with Terraform / Terragrunt and infrastructure as code.

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Solid database knowledge (PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached).

• Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience working in fully remote teams.

• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Go.

• Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).

• Exposure to data lakes and ETL pipelines.

Compensation & Contract (Contractor)

• Contract Type: Independent contractor.

• Location: Open to candidates in Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Spain, or Romania.

• Rate: $50 USD/hour (~40 hrs/week).

• Additional Perks:

  • Annual company retreats (travel stipend provided).

  • Opportunities for long-term engagement with a global team.

  • A remote-first, async-first culture built on trust and autonomy.