About this role
About the Role
Build the operational platform for an early-stage AI assistant company. As the founding DevOps engineer, you will help a small engineering team ship quickly while keeping production systems reliable and secure.
What You'll Do
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Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, managing environments as code.
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
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Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems to identify issues early.
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Establish on-call rotations, write runbooks, lead incident response, and run postmortems that prevent recurring problems.
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Implement security controls for secrets, access permissions, dependency scanning, audit logs, and privacy requirements.
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Track infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
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Set platform standards and help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers.
What We're Looking For
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At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call responsibilities.
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Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
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A track record of building deployment tooling and CI/CD pipelines that support frequent, reliable releases.
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Experience with observability, incident response, and postmortems.
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Strong security fundamentals, including secrets management, least-privilege access, network boundaries, and compliance work such as SOC 2.
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Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand application code in production systems.
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Experience using AI-assisted development tools while verifying and taking responsibility for shipped code.
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A hands-on, early-team mindset, with experience managing costs and capacity as systems grow.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California, United States.