DevOps Engineer: Hybrid Work, Equity, Fast Deployments

S27a; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Ownership over infrastructure and eng.

Direct access to founders

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Company-funded laptop and home-office

Flexible PTO

Hybrid office in Union Square (4 days)

Small engineering team with maintain关注

Job summary

Dili is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure that the product and engineering teams depend on. You’ll work across AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, observability, security, and developer tooling to make it easier and safer for engineers to ship changes and operate production systems.

This hands-on role at an early-stage company involves building infrastructure, automating operations, responding to production issues, and setting practical reliability and security

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure for a software product.
• Strong experience with AWS and a practical understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, databases, and identity management.
• Experience managing infrastructure through Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable working with containers and containerized production workloads.
• Strong understanding of production observability, incident investigation, and root‑cause analysis.
• Able to automate operational work using Python, shell scripting, or another programming language.
• Comfortable working directly with application engineers and understanding how infrastructure decisions affect product development.
• Strong security judgment
• Able to turn ambiguous operational problems into practical, maintainable solutions.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve Dili’s production infrastructure across AWS services (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, networking, IAM).
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform, ensuring changes are reviewable and safe.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for backend, frontend, and infra.
• Improve observability with logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement lasting fixes.
• Enhance deployment safety with automated checks, progressive rollout, and rollback plans.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve local development, testing, and release workflows.
• Monitor capacity, reliability, and cost; implement practical improvements.
• Help define incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• Participate in on-call rotation and improve systems and processes for on-call work.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Automation

Security mindset

DevOps

Team collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Dili is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure that the product and engineering teams depend on. You’ll work across AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, observability, security, and developer tooling to make it easier and safer for engineers to ship changes and operate production systems.

This hands-on role at an early-stage company involves building infrastructure, automating operations, responding to production issues, and setting practical reliability and security