About Paylocity

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.  

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce. 

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.  

About the Team & Role

The Delivery Platforms team is responsible for building and maintaining the CI/CD platforms and tools that empower engineers at Paylocity to deliver software rapidly, safely, and efficiently. This team owns core CI/CD infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and related services that enhance developer productivity and ensure reliable software delivery at scale.

As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be a key technical leader responsible for improving the stability, scalability, and performance of our CI/CD platform. You will work closely with other engineering teams to enhance the developer experience and drive continuous improvements in delivery pipelines and automation. You will also play an essential role in mentoring engineers and sharing best practices across the organization.

We’re looking for someone passionate about innovation, reliability, and helping engineers do their best work. If that sounds like you, apply and learn more about this exciting opportunity within Paylocity!

Responsibilities

• CI/CD Platform Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure CI/CD platforms and deployment pipelines to support software delivery across the organization.
• Automation & Efficiency: Build automation solutions to streamline build, deployment, and release processes, improving developer velocity and operational efficiency.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor and maintain the health of CI/CD systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Lead incident response and post-incident reviews to drive improvements.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with other teams in Platform Engineering to align and integrate delivery platforms with observability, infrastructure, and internal developer tooling.
• Continuous Improvement: Research, evaluate, and adopt new tools and practices to evolve the CI/CD platform and improve delivery processes.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Mentor engineers on best practices for CI/CD, automation, and operational excellence. Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Security & Compliance: Implement security best practices and ensure compliance requirements are met in CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Incident Management & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures to ensure platform stability.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools and platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, TeamCity, GitLab CI, Octopus Deploy, Argo CD) and best practices for software delivery.
• Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., C#, Go, Python, Java) and scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning in CI/CD systems.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams to deliver large-scale solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on resolving complex technical issues.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives, mentor engineers, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience with managing and scaling large CI/CD platforms.
• Knowledge of security best practices for CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with GitOps practices and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.   

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.  

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact LeaveBenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed. 

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