Founding DevOps Engineer - California

Corgea; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental and Vision

Flexible working hours

Equity options

Job summary

A fast-moving startup is seeking a Founding DevOps Engineer to build and scale secure, reliable infrastructure. This role requires a technical thinker ready to tackle complex problems across cloud environments and CI/CD. Key responsibilities include automating processes, enhancing performance, and ensuring security. Competitive compensation ranges from $100,000 to $210,000 with stock options. Ideal candidates will have strong public cloud experience and scripting skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Solid scripting or coding ability.
• Familiarity with security tooling and best practices.
• Experience supporting high-availability production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure.
• Improve uptime, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and internal tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code.
• Strengthen security posture across environments.

Skills

DevOps

Infrastructure Engineering

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

JavaScript/TypeScript

Linux systems

Networking

CI/CD systems

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

NewRelic

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

We’re hiring a Founding DevOps Engineer to help us build and scale secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient infrastructure for a fast‑moving startup. This is a hands‑on role for someone who is deeply technical, highly pragmatic, and able to move with urgency. You should be comfortable owning infrastructure end to end, writing code, improving developer velocity, and supporting enterprise‑grade requirements without overengineering.

You’ll be working across cloud environments, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, and performance. We want someone who can make smart tradeoffs, automate aggressively, and keep systems fast, stable, and economical as we grow.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across multi‑cloud environments
• Improve uptime, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our platform
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and internal developer tooling
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code
• Strengthen our security posture across cloud, application, secrets, access control, and runtime environments
• Partner with engineering to improve build speed, release quality, and operational maturity
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processes
• Support enterprise customer requirements around security, scalability, compliance, and architecture
• Troubleshoot production issues quickly and systematically
• Write code and scripts to automate operational work and eliminate manual toil

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong hands‑on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Experience with modern DevOps tooling such as:
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD systems
  • NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar observability tools
• Solid scripting or coding ability in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, IAM, secrets management, and production debugging
• Familiarity with security tooling and concepts, including vulnerability management, cloud security best practices, least privilege, secrets handling, and secure software delivery
• Experience supporting high‑availability production systems
• Ability to move quickly, operate independently, and make sound engineering tradeoffs
• Comfortable with ambiguity, ownership, and startup pace

Nice to have

• Experience in multi‑cloud architecture
• Experience with enterprise environments, compliance, or customer security requirements
• Experience with incident management, on‑call processes, and postmortems
• Familiarity with security scanning, container security, SAST/SCA, or cloud security tooling
• Experience building internal platforms or developer infrastructure
• Experience working at a startup or high‑growth company

What success looks like

• Infrastructure is reliable, secure, and easy for engineers to use
• Deployments are fast and low‑friction
• Costs are understood and actively optimized
• Systems are observable and incidents are handled well
• Security and enterprise requirements are handled without slowing the company down
• Manual work gets automated away

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $100,000 – $210,000
• Equity: 0.05% – 0.50%
• Health Insurance, Dental and Vision
• Flexible working hours

Why join us

You’ll have real ownership over the systems that power the company. This is a role for someone who wants to move fast, solve hard infrastructure problems, and build durable systems that support both product velocity and enterprise scale.