Founding DevOps Engineer
Core
Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute; build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and observability systems.
Role type
Founding DevOps Engineer (infrastructure ownership & platform standards)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, preview environments, feature flags, gated tests, rollback capabilities, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure & DevOps
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Infrastructure as code (Terraform/Pulumi), container orchestration, CI/CD pipeline design, observability (logging/metrics/tracing), incident response, security controls (secrets management/IAM), cost monitoring, capacity planning, TypeScript or Python
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development workflows, hiring engineering talent
Technologies
Terraform, Pulumi, containers, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Python
Responsibilities
Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute; Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling; Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems; Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response practices, and postmortems; Implement security controls including secrets management and dependency scanning; Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste; Set platform standards and help hire engineers.
Seniority
Founding team, hands-on IC
