DevOps Platform Development Engineer (Bilingual Mandarin)

DevOps Platform Development Engineer (Bilingual Mandarin & English)

Location: Palo Alto, CA (Onsite)
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Compensation: $150,000 - $220,000 annually (12 months base + 2 months bonus)

Job Overview:

• Responsible for deploying, integrating, adapting, and operating domestic DevOps and High Availability (HA) platforms across overseas regions, ensuring successful rollout according to project timelines.
• Evaluate differences between overseas public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises data center environments in areas such as compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, security, and compliance, and develop and execute localization and adaptation plans.
• On the DevOps side, lead the overseas rollout of service deployment platforms, change management systems, and large-scale operations platforms, while optimizing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release management processes.
• On the High Availability side, implement disaster recovery capabilities, failover strategies, DR validation, and chaos engineering practices, drive issue remediation, and continuously improve the reliability of overseas production environments.
• Participate in the day-to-day operations and incident response of overseas production environments, quickly troubleshoot deployment, infrastructure, and platform integration issues, and drive root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain deployment documentation, operational runbooks, disaster recovery plans, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to improve the efficiency of global platform delivery and operations.
• Collaborate closely with platform engineering teams in China as well as overseas infrastructure, networking, security, and business teams to manage implementation schedules, dependencies, and risks, while providing feedback to improve platform capabilities for international deployment scenarios.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), cloud platforms, or infrastructure engineering, with strong delivery and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of Linux, computer networking, and common infrastructure components, with the ability to independently deploy, configure, and troubleshoot systems.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform. Experience with KubeVela is a plus.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Shell, with the ability to develop automation tools and read/debug backend service code.
• Familiarity with at least one major public cloud platform or enterprise private cloud environment, with a solid understanding of multi-region deployment, network connectivity, identity and access management, and security isolation.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or OpenTelemetry.
• Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English is required to support collaboration with global teams and stakeholders who primarily communicate in these languages.
• Strong sense of ownership, excellent execution skills, and the ability to translate centrally designed platform solutions into stable, maintainable local implementations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience deploying internal platforms globally, migrating infrastructure, or supporting multi-region deployments.
• Experience building or operating DevOps toolchains and large-scale infrastructure at major Internet or technology companies.
• Experience with disaster recovery, chaos engineering, capacity planning, or managing large-scale production incidents.
• Familiarity with data residency requirements, privacy protection regulations, and regional infrastructure compliance standards.