Founding DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, compute, and infrastructure-as-code-managed environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rollback tooling.
• Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems.
• Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response practices, and postmortems.
• Implement secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, and other security controls.
• Track service costs and capacity, plan for traffic growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.
• Set platform standards and help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call work.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
• Experience building CI/CD and deployment tooling for frequent, reliable releases.
• Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud accounts, networking, databases, and compute.
• Strong security fundamentals, including IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and SOC 2 compliance work.
• Ability to write TypeScript or Python and read application code, including experience verifying and owning code developed with AI-assisted tools.
• Experience leading a growing engineering team while remaining technically involved, and hiring or onboarding infrastructure engineers.

Benefits

• Base salary of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
• Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco, California.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.