DevOps Engineer

Pulse; San Francisco (CA); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance-based bonus

Relocation assistance

Daily meal stipend

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Job summary

A tech firm specializing in document intelligence is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design and operate a secure platform for multi-tenant deployments. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in DevOps with strong skills in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. This position offers a competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits, and is based in San Francisco with initial 5 days in-office per week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps or platform engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and Linux.
• Experience supporting security reviews and compliance evidence.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Terraform modules and GitHub Actions CI and CD.
• Operate EKS, autoscaling, ingress, and secrets management.
• Implement SSO, network controls, and audit logging.
• Set up logging, metrics, and tracing with clear SLOs.
• Drive capacity planning and cost optimization.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Linux

Job description

Overview

Pulse is tackling one of the most persistent challenges in data infrastructure: extracting accurate, structured information from complex documents at scale. We have a breakthrough approach to document understanding that combines intelligent schema mapping with fine-tuned extraction models where legacy OCR and other parsing tools consistently fail.

We are a small, fast-growing team of engineers in San Francisco powering Fortune 100 enterprises, YC startups, public investment firms, and growth-stage companies. We are backed by tier 1 investors and growing quickly.

What makes our tech special is our multi-stage architecture:

• Layout understanding with specialized component detection models

• Low-latency OCR models for targeted extraction

• Advanced reading-order algorithms for complex structures

• Proprietary table structure recognition and parsing

• Fine-tuned vision-language models for charts, tables, and figures

If you are passionate about the intersection of computer vision, NLP, and data infrastructure, your work at Pulse will directly impact customers and shape the future of document intelligence.

What we are looking for

• 5 days in-office at our San Francisco office

• Eager to learn and adapt quickly

• Prior startup or founding experience is a plus
  

About the Role
Design and operate a secure platform for multi-tenant and dedicated VPC deployments. Make provisioning, monitoring, and upgrades simple and predictable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Terraform modules and GitHub Actions CI and CD

• Operate EKS, autoscaling, ingress, and secrets management

• Implement SSO, network controls, and audit logging

• Set up logging, metrics, and tracing with clear SLOs

• Drive capacity planning and cost optimization
  

Requirements

• 4+ years in DevOps or platform engineering

• Strong Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and Linux fundamentals

• Experience supporting security reviews and compliance evidence
  

Nice to have

• GPU workloads, Triton Inference Server, HashiCorp Vault
  

Sponsorship
Sponsorship available.

Compensation and benefits
Competitive base salary plus equity, performance-based bonus, relocation assistance for Bay Area moves, daily meal stipend, medical, vision, and dental coverage.