DevOps Engineer — Remote, Own the Weekly Deployment Cadence

Sledge; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Direct access to founding team

Ownership of infrastructure

Impact on weekly ship

Job summary

Sledge is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and deployment pipeline behind Sledge's weekly ship cadence. Sledge runs on AWS, with a stack built on Next.js, Express, TypeScript, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase/PostgreSQL, plus a Python/FastAPI AI system running alongside it.

This is a hands-on, build-and-maintain role. You will set up real infrastructure, not just dashboards, and ensure deployments are reliable, scalable, and fast as the product scales.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing production infrastructure on AWS.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable with a Node.js/TypeScript backend and a Python backend.
• Ability to set up monitoring, logging, and alerting from scratch.
• Comfortable working at startup speed and supporting weekly deployments.
• Experience handling on-call paging and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve Sledge's CI/CD pipeline to keep weekly shipping fast and safe.
• Manage and maintain Sledge's AWS infrastructure.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting to catch issues early.
• Collaborate with engineering to keep deployments smooth across stacks.
• Improve reliability, uptime, and performance as the user base grows.
• Manage environment configuration, secrets, and access across environments.
• Support release process and rollback plans.

Skills

Monitoring & observability

Incident management

CI/CD automation

Startup pace adaptation

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Docker

PostgreSQL

Drizzle ORM

Supabase

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Sledge is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and deployment pipeline behind Sledge's weekly ship cadence. Sledge runs on AWS, with a stack built on Next.js, Express, TypeScript, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase/PostgreSQL, plus a Python/FastAPI AI system running alongside it.

This is a hands-on, build-and-maintain role. You will set up real infrastructure, not just dashboards, and ensure deployments are reliable, scalable, and fast as the product scales.