4+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering with on-call experience.
Hands-on with major cloud platforms and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
Experience in building CI/CD pipelines and observability systems.
Practical knowledge of security practices including secrets management and IAM.
Proficient in TypeScript or Python for application deployment.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and quality assurance.
Founding-team mindset with a proactive approach to setting operational standards.
Responsibilities
Own and manage cloud infrastructure, networking, and databases using infrastructure as code.
Build and maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines with features like gated tests and rapid rollbacks.
Design observability systems for comprehensive monitoring of logs, metrics, and alerts.
Establish incident response processes and lead postmortems to mitigate recurring issues.
Implement security controls for sensitive data and compliance with privacy commitments.
Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, planning for future growth and efficiency.
Set operational standards and contribute to building the engineering team.
Benefits
Opportunity to shape the operational platform from the ground up.
Work in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment.
Be part of a small, innovative engineering team.
Engage in meaningful work that impacts user communications and privacy.
Potential for significant professional growth as the company scales.
Full Job Description
About the Role
As the founding DevOps engineer at a seed-stage AI productivity startup, you'll build and own the operational platform that enables a small engineering team to ship frequently and reliably. You'll help protect a product that handles users' communications, schedules, and sensitive information while setting the infrastructure and operational standards for future growth. What You'll Do
Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, using infrastructure as code to make environments easy to create and remove.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
Design and operate observability systems for logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response processes, and lead postmortems that prevent recurring issues.
Implement security controls for secrets, access, dependencies, audit logs, and privacy commitments.
Monitor costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.
Set operational standards and help build the engineering team.
What We're Looking For
At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibility.
Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
Experience building high-velocity CI/CD and deployment tooling, plus observability systems and incident response practices.
Practical security experience, including secrets management, least-privilege access, IAM, network boundaries, dependency scanning, audit logs, and SOC 2 work.
Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand the application code you deploy.
Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped work.
A hands-on, founding-team mindset and enthusiasm for setting standards in a fast-moving environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Location
