Founding DevOps Engineer

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.