DevOps Engineer

RiseServ Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RiseServ Inc. is seeking a backend DevOps-focused engineer in San Jose, CA. You will own services end-to-end—from design to production—as part of a software engineering team.

You’ll build high-performance distributed systems and shape tooling, infrastructure, and processes for reliable and fast delivery. You’ll design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP, automate CI/CD pipelines, and implement strong observability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).
• Understanding of monitoring, alerting, and production operations.
• Comfortable owning systems in production and troubleshooting live issues.

Responsibilities

• Own services end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, and reliability in production.
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable releases.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Implement strong observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing) to ensure system health.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Debug production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ship high-quality features quickly.
• Contribute to internal tooling and developer experience to improve engineering velocity.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Docker Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Production on-call

Tools

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Job description

The original details below are provided in English.

This role blends backend development with infrastructure and DevOps ownership, giving you full lifecycle responsibility for the services you build—from design to production. You’ll work on high-performance distributed systems while also shaping the tooling, infrastructure, and processes that enable reliable and fast delivery.

Department:

Software Engineering

Project Location(s):

San Jose, CA, US

Responsibilities

Own services end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, and reliability in production.

Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable releases.

Build and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).

Implement strong observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing) to ensure system health.

Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Debug production issues and participate in on-call rotations.

Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ship high-quality features quickly.

Contribute to internal tooling and developer experience to improve engineering velocity.

Skills/Experience

Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).

Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Cloudformation, Pulumi, etc.).

Understanding of monitoring, alerting, and production operations.

Comfortable owning systems in production and troubleshooting live issues.

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