# Software Engineer, DevOps

**Company:** [Ema](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ema)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $135k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure, GCP, Helm, Istio, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Pagerduty, Selenium, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-04-30

> Designs and builds scalable infrastructure for AI products, focusing on cloud platforms, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. Requires 3+ years in infrastructure engineering and bachelor's/master's in CS.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with product teams to architect, design, and build the foundational infrastructure for our products.
- Design, develop, and deploy highly available and scalable Multi-tenant SaaS solutions on public cloud networks like **AWS**, **Azure**, and **GCP**. Leverage technologies such as **Kubernetes**, **Helm**, **Terraform**, and **Istio** to achieve infrastructure resilience.
- Drive the automation of infrastructure tasks, from provisioning to configuration management and deployment, utilizing tools like **Terraform**, **Ansible**, and **Kubernetes**.
- Collaborate closely with the software development team to refine **CI/CD** pipelines, e.g., using **GitHub Actions** and Cloud Build tools, enhance service interfaces, and improve the overall developer experience.
- Architect and implement advanced observability solutions using tools like **Prometheus** and **Grafana**. Ensure real-time alerting and error tracking with **Sentry** and **Pagerduty** to maintain system health and performance.
- Deploy comprehensive testing frameworks, including tools like **Selenium** for end-to-end testing. Ensure robust integration and system testing to maintain software quality.
- Regularly monitor system health, analyze performance metrics, and recommend enhancements. This includes optimizing database queries and ensuring peak database performance.

## Nice to Have
- **MLOps** experience
- Experience with **Postgres** query optimization and related performance improvement techniques.
- Experience with event-driven data and machine learning infrastructure, including streaming pipelines, database systems, model training
- Experience with air-gapped cloud environments or private clouds
- Experience administering complex deployments on **Azure**, especially **AKS**

## Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in Infrastructure engineering, or a similar role
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience working with global teams

## Compensation (California based candidates)
- Standard base salary: **$135,000-$225,000** annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

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