Founding DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute using infrastructure as code.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rollback capabilities.
• Design and operate observability systems for logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
• Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response processes, and postmortems.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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, Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
• Experience building high-velocity deployment tooling, observability systems, and incident response practices.
• Practical security experience with 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 being deployed.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped work.
• Hands-on founding-team mindset and enthusiasm for setting standards in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

• Salary range of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
• On-site work in San Francisco, California.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.