{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"099412582bb0adf41a23aba6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/099412582bb0adf41a23aba6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/099412582bb0adf41a23aba6","title":"Founding DevOps Engineer - California","description":"We’re hiring a Founding DevOps Engineer to help us build and scale secure, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure for a fast-moving startup.This is a hands-on role for someone who is deeply technical, highly pragmatic, and able to move with urgency. You should be comfortable owning infrastructure end to end, writing code, improving developer velocity, and supporting enterprise-grade requirements without overengineering.You’ll be working across cloud environments, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, and performance. We want someone who can make smart tradeoffs, automate aggressively, and keep systems fast, stable, and economical as we grow.What you’ll doDesign, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environmentsImprove uptime, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our platformBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and internal developer toolingAutomate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as CodeStrengthen our security posture across cloud, application, secrets, access control, and runtime environmentsPartner with engineering to improve build speed, release quality, and operational maturityImplement and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processesSupport enterprise customer requirements around security, scalability, compliance, and architectureTroubleshoot production issues quickly and systematicallyWrite code and scripts to automate operational work and eliminate manual toilWhat we’re looking for 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure EngineeringStrong hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and/or AzureExperience with modern DevOps tooling such as:DockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD systemsNewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar observability toolsSolid scripting or coding ability in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or JavaScript/TypeScriptStrong understanding of Linux systems, networking, IAM, secrets management, and production debuggingFamiliarity with security tooling and concepts, including vulnerability management, cloud security best practices, least privilege, secrets handling, and secure software deliveryExperience supporting high-availability production systemsAbility to move quickly, operate independently, and make sound engineering tradeoffsComfortable with ambiguity, ownership, and startup paceNice to haveExperience in multi-cloud architectureExperience with enterprise environments, compliance, or customer security requirementsExperience with incident management, on-call processes, and postmortemsFamiliarity with security scanning, container security, SAST/SCA, or cloud security toolingExperience building internal platforms or developer infrastructureExperience working at a startup or high-growth companyWhat success looks likeInfrastructure is reliable, secure, and easy for engineers to useDeployments are fast and low-frictionCosts are understood and actively optimizedSystems are observable and incidents are handled wellSecurity and enterprise requirements are handled without slowing the company downManual work gets automated awayCompensation & BenefitsBase salary: $100,000 – $210,000Equity: 0.05% – 0.50%Health Insurance, Dental and VisionFlexible working hoursWhy join usYou’ll have real ownership over the systems that power the company. 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