Skip to content

DevOps Engineer

140k – 200kSan Francisco, CAOnsite6+ YOE
Summary

Hands-on DevOps role owning AWS infrastructure, building developer tooling, and driving technical roadmap at an early-stage YC startup. Requires 6+ years infra/DevOps experience and strong AWS/K8s/Terraform skills.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of our AWS infrastructure. Ensure our environments are usable and stable.
  • Create tooling to allow our developers to safely and efficiently use our AWS environment to develop applications.
  • Collaborate with other engineers and designers to build a user-friendly and intuitive platform that meets our customers' needs.
  • Help define and execute the technical roadmap for our platform, balancing technical debt and innovation to ensure we can deliver on our business goals.
  • Inventing, extending, and maintaining development processes, tools, and workflows.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience as an infra or devops engineer, with a focus on building scalable and reliable web applications, preferably at a pre-Series B startup. Tech Lead experience is a plus.
  • Ability to decompose large problems into concrete deliverables and milestones and then deliver against the committed plan.
  • Strong proficiency AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases. We use Postgres and Dynamo!
  • Expertise with Docker and container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes).
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with and enjoys creating prototypes and experimenting quickly.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage for you
  • 401(k) plan
  • Generous PTO: 13 accrued days, plus company shutdown December 24—January 1st
  • Free lunch & dinner at the office
  • Annual company-paid retreats
  • Developmental bonuses: support for professional development opportunities tied to cloud and related fields

Minimum Requirements and Pay

  • US Citizen/Visa Only - no sponsorships available
  • Minimum 6 years of experience
  • Base salary USD 140,000-200,000 per year
  • Eligible for our highly valuable equity
Skills
AWSKubernetesTerraformPythonPostgresDockerDynamoDBSQLNoSQL
Similar roles at this salary range
All DevOps / SRE jobs →
Komodo Health

Senior Data Engineer, Sentinel (Pacific Time Zone)

Senior Infrastructure Engineer building and operating AWS cloud infrastructure for healthcare data platform. Requires Python, Terraform, CI/CD expertise, and big data tools experience.

153k – 210kUnited StatesDevOps / SRERemote5+ YOEAWSVPC
Pinterest

Sr. Production Engineer, Solutions Engineering

Senior Production Engineer building AI agents, platforms, and automation to ensure reliability of Pinterest's large-scale distributed systems serving hundreds of millions of users.

140k – 288kChicago, IL +1DevOps / SRERemote5+ YOEGoAWS
Chime

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Build and operate foundational data infrastructure including Airflow, Flink, DynamoDB, and RDS using Terraform and Kubernetes. Requires 2-4 years of infrastructure/platform experience and strong Python skills.

133k – 184kUnited StatesDevOps / SRERemote2+ YOEAWSRDS
Retool

Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Build internal AI tools and autonomous agents that embed into Retool's engineering workflows to boost developer productivity and reduce toil. Requires shipping real AI-powered developer tools and infrastructure.

155k – 315kSan Francisco, CADevOps / SREHybrid5+ YOELLMsAI agents
Applied Intuition

Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer

Design and own the OpenUSD-based asset pipeline for a high-fidelity sensor simulation platform. Build automated DCC-to-engine pipelines, custom schemas, material conversion, and validation systems at library scale.

151k – 230kSunnyvale, CADevOps / SREOn-site5+ YOEMDLCI/CD