Devops Engineer

Synth (YC S21); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Infer in Bengaluru is seeking a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer to join as our first dedicated specialist. You’ll help move from patchwork to foundation, ensuring secure, scalable deployments and enabling preview environments for every PR.

You’ll own IAM, secrets, and SOC 2 compliance, collaborate with product and backend teams, and optimize cloud costs while improving reliability across AWS services and integrations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in a DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain AWS IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege boundaries across our accounts.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Security mindset

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

AWS Secrets Manager

HashiCorp Vault

Doppler

CloudFormation/Pulumi

Datadog

Job description

About Us

Infer is building the operating system for insurance agencies. We make AI agents (including voice agents) that handle the work agencies have always done by hand: qualifying inbound leads, helping producers during live calls, auditing calls after, running renewals, and bringing churned customers back.

About The Role

We’re hiring our first dedicated DevOps/Infrastructure engineer. You’re joining at a moment where we need to stop patching and start building foundations. We've shipped our first product in months because we moved fast. Now with capital and a growing customer base, we’re scaling deliberately and that means fixing the infrastructure we built to ship. Every day you’ll unbundle product and backend engineers who are waiting for preview deployments or debugging prod issues that could’ve been caught in staging.

What You’ll Do

• Design and maintain AWS IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege boundaries across our accounts.
• Triage and resolve security issues; harden production against common threat vectors.
• Build optimization for cloud services and APIs (AWS, Twilio, LLM inference, TTS).
• Own the API key and secrets lifecycle issuance, rotation, scoping, revocation.
• Maintain SOC 2 Type II program: controls, evidence collection, audit prep, add to this controls and security.
• Ship preview deployment infrastructure so every PR gets a reviewable environment.

Must-Haves

• 3–5 years in a DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering role.
• Production AWS experience (IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS or Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform (or CloudFormation/Pulumi).
• CI/CD pipeline ownership (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar) including preview/ephemeral environments.
• Containerization with Docker and working knowledge of Kubernetes or ECS.
• Hands‑on secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or Doppler).
• Demonstrated cost‑optimization work right‑setting, savings plans, usage dashboards.
• Comfort with a scripting language (Python, Go, or Bash) for automation.
• Security mindset: vulnerability scanning, patching, incident response.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Direct experience with SOC 2 Type I or II — controls, auditor coordination, evidence automation with Vanta/Drata/Secureframe.
• Optimizing spend on LLM/AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) or real‑time voice infrastructure (Twilio, Daily, LiveKit).
• Observability stack work Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
• Background supporting low‑latency or real‑time systems (voice, streaming, WebRTC).
• Exposure to SSO/identity federation.
• Open‑source contributions to infra tooling.
• Prior early‑stage startup experience where you wore multiple hats.

A Few Reasons to Join Us

• We like pushing each other on team to test the limits because that’s when you rediscover yourself.
• We’re paranoid about making customers succeed (we challenge what’s already good).
• We love people who question‑challenge‑build.
• We’re highly transparent founders to work with & love getting challenged.
• Finally, we love people who’re interdisciplinary.