Founding DevOps Engineer
Core
Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, compute, and infrastructure-as-code-managed environments while building CI/CD pipelines and observability systems.
Role type
Founding DevOps Engineer (hands-on IC with team leadership)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, preview environments, feature flags, rollback tooling, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud platform expertise, Terraform or Pulumi, containers and orchestration, CI/CD tooling, observability, incident response, security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management), TypeScript or Python
Preferred skills
Experience leading a growing engineering team, hiring/onboarding infrastructure engineers, experience verifying AI-assisted code
Technologies
Terraform, Pulumi, containers, orchestration, TypeScript, Python
Responsibilities
Own cloud infrastructure and networking; Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines; Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems; Establish on-call rotations and incident response practices; Implement security controls and secrets management; Track service costs and plan for traffic growth; Help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers
Seniority
Senior, founding team member with leadership responsibilities
