About the RoleWe're looking for a Software Engineer (DevOps) to help design, build, and maintain the systems that keep our platform fast, reliable, and secure. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who loves infrastructure, automation, and high-leverage backend work. You'll work across backend services, CI/CD, and cloud architecture - enabling the entire engineering team to ship confidently and often. You'll collaborate closely with backend and frontend engineers, owning our deployment pipelines, AWS environments, and infrastructure-as-code. The ideal candidate thrives in startup environments - solving problems pragmatically, balancing speed and reliability, and continuously improving tooling and processes.
Key ResponsibilitiesInfrastructure & DevOps
- Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth, fast, and reliable deployments.
- Manage and optimize our AWS environment (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.), and abstract to multi-cloud environments such as GCP and Azure.
- Build reproducible, scalable infrastructure using Terraform and other IaC tools.
- Containerize and orchestrate applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Improve monitoring, logging, and observability for all production systems.
- Partner with backend engineers to automate testing, staging, and release workflows.
Backend & Service Development
- Contribute to backend services written in Python (FastAPI) with SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL.
- Write and maintain test suites and deployment scripts that keep systems stable and predictable.
- Help design and build APIs and integrations that connect infrastructure to product functionality.
- Support the team in diagnosing and resolving performance or reliability issues across environments.
Collaboration & Process
- Work cross-functionally with product, backend, and frontend teams to deliver secure, reliable releases.
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced, async environment - communicate clearly and prioritize well.
- Contribute to technical documentation and help define standards for DevOps and deployment practices.
QualificationsRequired
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant DevOps ownership.
- Deep experience with AWS primitives and cloud architecture.
- Strong expertise with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
- Skilled with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized application deployment.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Strong background in Python, FastAPI, and SQL-based data layers.
- Proven ability to automate and streamline development and release workflows.
- Experience with VPNs (Tailscale, or similar).
Preferred
- Experience with Kubernetes, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar).
Why JoinYou'll own high-leverage infrastructure and have direct impact on how quickly and confidently the entire team ships. If you enjoy working in a collaborative, high-velocity environment and want to shape the backbone of a fast-growing AI startup - this is the place.
Pay range and compensation package $170,000- $220,000 + Equity + Health Benefits