Job Specifications
About Beacon Software
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.
About The Role
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.
What You'll Do
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
What You'll Bring
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