Founding DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, including infrastructure-as-code environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, preview environments, feature flags, gated tests, and rollback capabilities.
• Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems.
• Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response practices, and postmortems.
• Implement security controls including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, audit logs, and privacy-supporting infrastructure.
• Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
• Set platform standards and help hire engineers as the team grows.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibilities.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
• Track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling for frequent, reliable releases.
• Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, IAM, and vulnerability scanning.
• Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped code.
• Experience with cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.
• Hands-on, founding-team mindset.

Benefits

• Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco, California.
• Base salary of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.