DevOps Engineer Engineering · Los Angeles, CA — remote friendly · View role →

Furlcareers; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Furl is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Los Angeles, remote-friendly, for a full-time role. You will own cloud infrastructure end-to-end, provisioning with OpenTofu, running Kubernetes, and shipping changes with FluxCD. You will influence architecture toward cloud-agnostic, OSS-first infra.

The role requires 3+ years in DevOps, IaC with OpenTofu/Terraform, AWS knowledge, and GitOps familiarity. You will build CI/CD, improve observability, and enforce security fundamentals while writing docs and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Solid infrastructure-as-code skills with OpenTofu or Terraform.
• Working knowledge of AWS core services (networking, IAM, compute, storage).
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows (FluxCD, Argo CD, or similar).
• Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort on the command line.
• Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or Go.
• A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset suited to a small team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code with OpenTofu.
• Operate and scale our Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, and reliability work.
• Manage application and cluster delivery through GitOps with FluxCD.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines so engineers can ship quickly and safely.
• Strengthen observability, alerting, and on-call practices.
• Own security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Evaluate and adopt open source alternatives to proprietary or cloud-specific services.
• Write clear documentation and share knowledge with the rest of the team.

Skills

DevOps engineering

Linux fundamentals

OpenTofu/Terraform

AWS core services

GitOps workflows

Kubernetes

Scripting Bash/Python/Go

Ownership mindset

Tools

OpenTofu

Terraform

FluxCD

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Karpenter

KEDA

Job description

Engineering · Los Angeles, CA — remote friendly · Full-time

About Furl

Furl is a small software startup building infrastructure the way we think it should be built: declarative, reproducible, and based on free and open source software. We run on AWS today, but we design for portability so we're never locked into a single cloud.

The role

You'll help own our cloud infrastructure end to end: provisioning it with OpenTofu, running workloads on Kubernetes, and shipping changes through GitOps with FluxCD. On a team this size, your work has direct impact, and you'll have a real say in the architecture as we move toward cloud-agnostic, FOSS-first infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code with OpenTofu
• Operate and scale our Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, and reliability work
• Manage application and cluster delivery through GitOps with FluxCD
• Improve CI/CD pipelines so engineers can ship quickly and safely
• Strengthen observability, alerting, and on-call practices
• Own security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access
• Evaluate and adopt open source alternatives to proprietary or cloud-specific services
• Write clear documentation and share knowledge with the rest of the team

Our stack

Area

Tools

Cloud AWS (today), designed to stay portable

Orchestration Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code OpenTofu (Terraform-compatible)

Philosophy Free and open source software wherever practical

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience
• Solid infrastructure-as-code skills with OpenTofu or Terraform
• Working knowledge of AWS core services (networking, IAM, compute, storage)
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows (FluxCD, Argo CD, or similar)
• Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort on the command line
• Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or Go
• A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset suited to a small team

Nice to have

• Experience with other clouds or bare metal, and with multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic design
• Hands-on time with self-hosted open source tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and similar)
• Kubernetes autoscaling experience (Karpenter, KEDA)
• Running stateful workloads such as PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
• Contributions to open source projects

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor an employment visa.