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# Staff Engineer, DevOps at LearnUpon

- **Company:** LearnUpon
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Posted:** 2025-12-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/learnupon/jobs/8341543002

## Job description

Work Mode: Hybrid 1+ day per week in our Dublin office

Department: Engineering

## About the Company

LearnUpon partners with over 1,600 organisations globally to unlock the potential of employees, customers & members through learning that’s easy, scalable and focused on results.

Read more about life at LearnUpon [here](https://careers.learnupon.com/).

## About the Team

Our Engineering team builds and delivers our best-in-class, world-scale Learning Management System (LMS). We focus on architectural excellence, reliability, and technical innovation across multiple teams and services. Operating with high ownership and deep technical expertise, we champion engineering best practices, seamless automation, and a strong culture of collaborative mentorship to support LearnUpon's global product growth.

## About the Opportunity

As a Staff Engineer, DevOps, you'll be a key technical leader and role model within LearnUpon. You'll shape the DevOps architecture of our best-in-class LMS, influence our technical strategy, and elevate the skills of our entire engineering organization. Your impact will extend beyond our product, contributing to our mission of building robust, lovable learning products that help customers achieve results.

In addition, you’ll be responsible for:

- Architecture & Strategy: Drive technical innovation, shape our long-term technical roadmap, and establish scalable DevOps architecture across multiple platform services
- Automation & CI/CD: Establish and scale robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, driving best practices across the engineering organization
- Operational Excellence: Champion absolute standards for code quality, system design, scalability, and cloud production reliability
- Mentorship & Leadership: Provide strategic technical guidance, acting as a prominent role model to uplevel the skills of our entire engineering and senior technical talent pool
- Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Engineering and cross-functional leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with business goals

## Skills & Experience

Must-Haves

- Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, particularly within AWS environments, with an advanced understanding of production scalability, security, and reliability
- Strong production experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts as the foundational layer for container platform orchestration
- Deep proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform or Ansible, focusing on modular and reusable architecture patterns
- Extensive background designing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and engineering automated internal tooling using Bash, Python, or Go
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale technical initiatives that span across multiple engineering squads and services
- Track record of mentoring, coaching, and elevating senior-level technical talent
- Experience using AI tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiencies

Nice-to-Haves

- Familiarity with GitOps deployment workflows using tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD
- Prior experience optimizing massive multi-tenant platform infrastructure within a high-growth B2B SaaS architecture

*If you don’t tick every box but believe this role is a mutually good fit, please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you.

Why choose LearnUpon?

From comprehensive rewards and generous time off to meaningful investment in your growth and development, LearnUpon gives you the support, trust, and opportunity to do the most impactful work of your career.

Learn more [here](https://careers.learnupon.com/).

Hiring Process

- Qualified applicants may be invited to an initial screening call with a member of our TA Team.
- Successful candidates will be invited to a series of practical interviews.
- Finally, candidates will have an interview with our CTO.
- Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

Note: At LearnUpon, we utilise AI to enhance the speed and quality of our screening and assessment practices, but our hiring decisions are always human.

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.

Check out our [Careers site](https://careers.learnupon.com/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/lifeatlearnupon/) to learn more about working at LearnUpon.

By submitting your application, you agree to LearnUpon's [Privacy Policy](https://www.learnupon.com/privacy-policy/).

## About LearnUpon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LearnUpon provides a cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) that enables organizations to train employees, customers, partners, and members from a single platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth Equity stage)
- **Headquarters**: Dublin, Ireland
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Brendan Noud, Des Anderson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Corporate Learning & Development (L&D) / EdTech
- **Target customers**: B2B; serves mid-market and enterprise organizations, including SMBs and Fortune 100 companies.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To revolutionize corporate learning and help businesses unlock learning as their number one competitive advantage.

## Products & Services
- **LearnUpon LMS**: A cloud-based, multi-tenant Learning Management System (SaaS) designed to train employees, customers, partners, and members from a single platform. It includes features for course creation, delivery, tracking, and reporting.
- **Create+**: An AI-assisted content authoring tool that enables users to create professional, interactive courses 90% faster at 10% of the cost, all within the LearnUpon platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $56.65M (latest round: Growth Equity, raised ~6 years ago).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Summit Partners (lead), Enterprise Ireland, National Digital Research Centre.
- **Growth Signals**: Serves 1,600+ global organizations; powers learning for 29+ million users; recognized as a top LMS by eLearning Industry and Brandon Hall (7 awards in 2024); actively hiring across multiple departments (Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, etc.) in 5 global offices.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Platform**: Purpose-built to train all external and internal audiences (employees, customers, partners, members) from a single, multi-tenant LMS, reducing complexity for large organizations.
- **AI-First Innovation**: Leading the transition into the AI era of learning with tools like Create+, which enables course creation 90% faster at 10% of the cost.
- **Proven Scale & Trust**: Serves 1,600+ global organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, and powers learning for 29+ million users, demonstrating enterprise-grade reliability and performance.
- **Industry Recognition**: Consistently recognized as a top LMS by industry analysts (eLearning Industry, Brandon Hall), validating product quality and market leadership.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Integration**: Spearheading the transition into the AI era of learning, with a focus on AI-assisted content creation and delivery to dramatically reduce the time and cost of building training programs.
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to develop and enhance the platform to serve all training audiences (employees, customers, partners, members) under one roof, with a focus on the "extended enterprise" use case.
- **Global Growth**: Expanding its customer base and team across its five global offices (Dublin, Belgrade, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Sydney) to serve a growing international clientele.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes a friendly, supportive team environment with core values like "Act Like An Owner," "Lead With Curiosity," and "Deliver Quality." Strong commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DE&I) with a published Gender Pay Gap report and active DIB initiatives.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid work model that balances productive solo focus with vibrant hybrid collaboration.
- **Total Rewards**: Competitive compensation, equity from day one, retirement matching, comprehensive family healthcare, enhanced parental support, and generous time off.
- **Growth & Impact**: As a learning company, employee development and career progression are core to the culture. Employees get autonomy to own big projects that impact 29+ million users globally.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on cutting-edge AI work, with roles like Staff Engineer (DevOps, Site Reliability) and Engineering Manager. Emphasis on delivering quality and owning high-impact decisions.

## Sources
1. [learnupon.com](https://www.learnupon.com/about/)
2. [careers.learnupon.com](https://careers.learnupon.com/)
3. [learnupon.com](https://www.learnupon.com/)
4. [boards.greenhouse.io](https://boards.greenhouse.io/learnupon)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/learnupon)

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