Founding DevOps Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Pally (YC S25); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Equity

Job summary

Pally, based in the Bay Area, is hiring a senior to staff level engineer to own how we ship and how the platform stays up. You’ll build and run the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability so the team can move fast without breaking things.

This is a hands-on role requiring on-call experience, Terraform/Pulumi familiarity, and strong security and scripting skills in TypeScript or Python. In-person in San Francisco, CA with significant equity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering with real time on call for production systems.
• Deep experience with a major cloud platform and infrastructure as code (Terraform/Pulumi) and containers.
• Record of building CI/CD pipelines and deploy tooling enabling frequent shipping.
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks, incident response, and postmortems that drive change.
• Strong security instincts: secrets, IAM, network boundaries; SOC 2 is a plus.
• Comfort writing TypeScript or Python and reading deployed code.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development workflows and owning everything you ship.
• You’ll set the operational bar for Pally and help hire engineers who join later.

Responsibilities

• Cloud infrastructure: own cloud accounts, networking, databases, and compute defined as code.
• CI/CD: fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, fast rollbacks.
• Observability: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards to diagnose issues.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Terraform/Pulumi

CI/CD pipelines

On-call incidents

Security basics

TypeScript/Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Pally, based in the Bay Area, is hiring a senior to staff level engineer to own how we ship and how the platform stays up. You’ll build and run the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability so the team can move fast without breaking things.

This is a hands-on role requiring on-call experience, Terraform/Pulumi familiarity, and strong security and scripting skills in TypeScript or Python. In-person in San Francisco, CA with significant equity.