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Code for America

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Government • Social Impact

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to improving government services and fostering resilient communities. The organization leverages technology to simplify access to food benefits, tax filing, criminal record clearance, and more, aiming to break down barriers and find real solutions for individuals across the country. Through partnerships with governments and communities, Code for America designs human-centered applications and provides consulting and advisory services to enhance social safety nets and government processes. By building tools and resources that facilitate easier benefit enrollment and tax services, Code for America strives to create a more inclusive government that works for everyone.

📋 Description

• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for secure, automated deployments • Implement, maintain, and monitor containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS) • Automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and governance with reusable modules and policy-as-code • Manage and monitor infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost optimization • Contribute to and enforce secure DevOps best practices (least privilege, secrets management, audit logging, vulnerability scanning) • Support platform integration for AI/ML workloads, container orchestration, and environment isolation • Actively seeks and applies emerging practices in cloud infrastructure, security, and AI/ML tooling; adapts approaches in response to shifts in compliance requirements, platform needs, or organizational priorities • Mentors peers on DevOps best practices and contributes to team-wide standards • Collaborate closely with engineering and security teams to ensure compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and NIST 800-53

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience • 3–5+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience • Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules to provision and manage cloud-based deployments • Deep experience with AWS (CloudFormation, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, RDS) • Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills in matrixed organizations • Familiarity with Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a plus • Proficient in GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes • Experience working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST)

🏖️ Benefits

• Laptop provided • A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month • $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire • Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000 • Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth • Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions. • Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5% • At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage • A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage • Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day • Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually • 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave • 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service