Platform Engineer

AirOps; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in a fast-growing startup

Competitive benefits package

Flexible time off policy

Parental Leave

Fun-loving team culture

Job summary

AirOps is seeking an experienced engineer to own the end-to-end deployment pipeline and bring automation to CI/CD processes. This role requires 5+ years of experience improving deployment systems and production AWS expertise. Candidates should have a mix of startup and larger-scale experience and a track record of enhancing developer productivity. The position offers competitive benefits and equity in a fast-growing startup in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and improving CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Production AWS experience with ECS, RDS, and related services.
• A mix of startup and larger-scale experience.
• Track record of eliminating deployment toil.
• Strong opinions about developer productivity with actionable results.
• Fundamentals in database operations and security practices.
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end deployment pipeline.
• Ensure environment parity across development stages.
• Build incident reduction infrastructure.
• Produce effective observability signals.
• Integrate AI-assisted developer tooling.
• Manage ECS operations and infrastructure.

Skills

CI/CD pipeline design

Production AWS experience

Startup and larger-scale experience

Automation of deployment processes

Developer productivity improvement

Database operations fundamentals

Agentic coding tools

Tools

AWS ECS

AWS RDS

Ruby on Rails

Job description

About AirOps

AirOps is the first end-to-end content engineering platform built for the AI era. In a world where discovery is shifting from traditional search to AI-driven platforms, we help brands get found—and stay found. We are currently in a phase of hyper-growth, having 5x’d our revenue in the last year by helping marketing teams at Ramp, Chime, Carta, and Rippling turn content quality into a durable competitive advantage.

Our platform equips marketers to navigate the new discovery landscape, prioritize high-impact opportunities, and create accurate, on-brand content that earns citations from AI and trust from humans. Backed by Greylock, Unusual Ventures, Wing VC, and Founder Collective, we are building the intelligent systems that will empower the next generation of marketing leaders. AirOps is headquartered in San Francisco, New York and Montevideo.

AirOps is building its platform engineering function from scratch. You'd be one of the first few US-based hires owning the infrastructure that every engineer at the company ships on. Today, deployment requires manual steps that have caused production outages. Dev environments don't match prod. Observability generates more noise than signal. These platform hires build the foundation they need to be productive on day one. This is not a maintenance role on mature systems. You\'ll design and ship the deployment pipeline, health checks, alerting, and developer tooling that the entire engineering org depends on. The problems are real, the backlog is full, and the work has direct leverage on how fast the company moves.

What you'll own

• The deployment pipeline end to end: CI/CD from commit to production, including staging build gating, automated rollback, and zero-manual-step deploys

• Environment parity across dev, staging, and production: DB initialization, auth configs, integration consistency, and review apps that actually reflect reality

• Incident reduction infrastructure: app-level health checks, migration safeguards, automated alerting on deploy failures, and deployment guardrails that prevent the class of outages we've had

• Observability that produces signal, not noise: fixing false-positive exceptions, making request time metrics useful, and cleaning up tech debt in service naming

• Agentic coding integration: evaluating and deploying AI-assisted developer tooling (automated bug trackers, code review automation, environment provisioning) to accelerate engineering productivity

• ECS operations and infrastructure management: running tasks, container orchestration, RDS, and new environment setup

What you'll bring

• 5+ years building and improving CI/CD pipelines across dev, staging, and production environments. You\'ve designed these systems, not just consumed them.

• Production AWS experience with ECS, RDS, and related services. You can debug infrastructure issues live, not just provision from templates.

• A mix of startup and larger-scale experience. You know what "good enough for now" looks like at a 50-person company and what breaks when you don\'t invest at 200.

• A track record of eliminating deployment toil. You\'ve automated away manual steps, built guardrails, or redesigned workflows that measurably improved reliability.

• Opinions about developer productivity backed by action. You\'ve shipped tooling or process improvements because you saw the need, not because it was on your sprint board.

• Solid fundamentals in database operations and security practices in production environments.

• Hands-on use of agentic coding tools in real workflows, with a clear view of both the upside and the limitations

Nice to haves

• Ruby on Rails deployment experience

• Experience building automated developer tooling that a team actually adopted

Our Guiding Principles

1. Extreme Ownership

2. Quality

3. Curiosity and Play

4. Make Our Customers Heroes

5. Respectful Candor

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing startup

• Competitive benefits package tailored to your location

• Flexible time off policy

• Parental Leave

• A fun-loving and (just a bit) nerdy team that loves to move fast!