DevOps Engineer

Motion is creating the command center for creative strategists: an AI-driven analytics and intelligence platform that bridges the gap between performance marketers and creative teams, helping them uncover what's working, what's not, and ultimately ship more winning ads across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok.

Today, Motion is trusted by some of the world’s top e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands and agencies (including Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, and HexClad) and has analyzed over $12 billion in media spend. When leading brands want to understand their creative performance, they turn to us.

We're growing fast (3x year-over-year), our product is sticky, and with a recent $30M Series B raise, we're just getting started. We're building the future of creative intelligence and are looking for talented people to help us get there! 🚀

About The DevOps Engineer Role 🔍

We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the systems that keep Motion running reliably and help our engineering team ship quickly and safely.

This is a function we expect to grow as we scale, so as our first hire in this area, it’s a chance to set the direction, define the standards, and build the foundation that future team members will work from.

What You'd Be Doing 🛠️

• Reliability and SRE (35%)
• Own SLOs, meaningful alerting, incident response, and runbooks
• Own and improve our current monitoring systems in Datadog, including baseline observability and proactive infra monitoring
• Handle infrastructure issues and performance investigations
• Platform and Developer Experience (25%)
• Improve GitHub Actions CI speed and stability, build PR preview environments, and create golden paths for developers
• Stand up a safe developer database strategy
• Ops and Infrastructure as Code (25%)
• Own Pulumi IaC and Docker images, environment management, secrets, and access control
• Maintain edge hygiene and payload sanity
• Security (10%)
• Implement SSO/MFA, maintain security and access hygiene, and handle first pass code security and up-to-dateness
• Monitor supply chain security and gather SOC2 evidence
• FinOps (5%)
• Identify and execute quick wins for cost, storage, and compute optimization
  

Your roadmap 🗺️

• First 30 days: Baseline and stabilize
• Review: Pulumi inventory check and drift report.
• Build: Rebuild a minimal pathway for Preview Deploys.
• Stabilize: Consolidate Datadog monitors, silence the noise, and build "Golden Signal" dashboards.
• Ops: Inventory Docker images and fix caching layers.
• FinOps: Establish a baseline for NAT/Storage costs and propose a consolidation plan (e.g., Private-Link opportunities).
  
  

• Beyond: Build and optimize
• Serious FinOps: Aggressive cost reduction and control within Azure.
• Internal Tooling: Building the "control plane" for how engineers interact with infrastructure (CLI tools, deployment dashboards).
• Maturity: Implementation of multi-tenant support, rigorous load testing, and capacity planning.
• Documentation: Creating infra diagrams and training the team on the "how" and "why."
  

Our ideal fit brings ✨

• Deep production experience with Azure and Cloudflare (or similar edge platforms)
• Strong infrastructure-as-code expertise with Pulumi (TypeScript or Python) or Terraform, with a policy-as-code mindset and readiness to adapt
• Mastery of GitHub Actions at scale, specifically within monorepos (Turborepo/pnpm), including OIDC-based CI authentication and cache management
• Experience designing instrumentation and observability systems (APM, tracing, profiling) in Datadog, New Relic, or Honeycomb, with the ability to alert on symptoms rather than noise
• Ability to debug complex production issues spanning the full stack, from the network later up (memory leaks, frame-time inconsistencies, performance bottlenecks)
• High agency and pragmatic approach: you identify problems and fix them without waiting for tickets, and you understand that complex systems are hard to measure but you try anyway
• Comfort with ambiguity and building in a fast-paced startup environment
  
  

What You'll Love About Motion 💜

• Competitive compensation package: We offer competitive compensation, including equity for all employees, health benefits from day one, a monthly health & lifestyle stipend to support your well-being, 20 days of PTO, and a $1,500 work-from-home stipend.
• Remote-first flexibility: We're a remote-first company with team members spanning Canada, the U.S., and beyond, offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.
• Team connection: To stay connected in a virtual workspace, we get together at least once yearly for a company-wide offsite (this year, we spent a week by the lake in Muskoka, Canada!)
• Proven leadership: Our founding team has already built a successful company in this space.
• Opportunity for impact: As an early team member, your contributions will directly shape the product, team, and the future of the company. If you're excited about building, you’ll thrive here.
• High-performance, low-ego culture: We’re an ambitious, action-oriented team that values collaboration and continuous learning.
  
  

A note on location: We're looking to hire someone based in Canada or the United States, but are open to exceptional candidates in other locations. If this position excites you and you believe you'd be a strong fit, we encourage you to apply!