About the role
About the Role
As the founding DevOps Engineer at an early-stage personal AI company, you will build the operational platform that enables a small engineering team to ship frequently and keep a trusted product reliable. You will establish the infrastructure, security, and incident response practices that support the product as it grows.
What You'll Do
* Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, defining environments as code so engineers can provision and remove them reliably.
* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
* Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems that surface issues early.
* Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response practices, and lead postmortems that reduce repeat issues.
* Implement security controls, including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, audit logs, and infrastructure supporting privacy commitments.
* Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
* Set platform standards and help hire engineers as the team grows.
What We're Looking For
* 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.
* A track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling that support frequent, reliable releases.
* Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, and security practices such as IAM and vulnerability scanning.
* Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.
* Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, with the judgment to verify and take ownership of shipped code.
* A hands-on, founding-team mindset, with experience in cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.