DevOps Engineer

Clever Real Estate

DevOps Engineer enhancing infrastructure and operational systems for a real estate tech company. Focusing on reliability, security, and efficient deployment processes.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDNSHeroku

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and continuously improve the infrastructure and operational systems that support Clever's engineering teams
Build safer deployment paths with automated health checks, documented rollback plans, and clear release visibility for high-risk services where the architecture supports them
Improve production reliability across infrastructure, data stores, queues, background jobs, logs, alerts, and supporting services
Lead or support infrastructure migrations, production cutovers, and environment changes across Heroku, AWS, ECS, RDS, networking, and DNS
Strengthen observability and incident response through better alerts, dashboards, escalation paths, post-incident follow-up, runbooks, and operational drills
Define practical reliability targets, service ownership expectations, and production-readiness standards for critical systems, internal tools, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows
Partner with engineers on infrastructure-sensitive application work, including scaling, error handling, deployment risk, data access, rollback planning, and small backend or internal-tooling changes
Support SOC2 and security readiness by improving infrastructure controls, access patterns, vulnerability handling, evidence collection, and repeatable operational practices
Improve local development and staging environments so engineers can onboard, test, and validate changes with less friction

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering
Strong production experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and services such as ECS, RDS, networking, IAM, DNS, and related operational patterns
Experience operating or migrating production systems on Heroku, AWS, or similar platforms
Deep understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback strategies, environment management, and release safety
Strong observability and incident-response experience across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, escalation, runbooks, and post-incident learning
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, repeatable infrastructure templates, scripting, and automation
Comfortable reading backend application code and making well-scoped backend or internal-tooling changes when infrastructure and application behavior overlap
Strong security and access-management judgment, including secrets management, environment controls, and least-privilege patterns
Strong ownership mindset with a bias toward action, clear follow-through, and practical systems thinking
Clear written communication and business judgment, especially for runbooks, technical decisions, operational standards, incident follow-up, and connecting infrastructure work to company impact

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidays
Annual budget for learning and career growth
Paid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestones
Exclusive access to Clever homeownership perks
Support for your remote workspace
Retirement plan administered through Guideline
6–12 weeks of paid parental leave
Free counseling sessions and optional weekly meditation

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsSREinfrastructure engineeringplatform engineeringbackend engineeringcloud infrastructureCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codedeployment automationscripting

Soft Skills

ownership mindsetclear follow-throughpractical systems thinkingwritten communicationbusiness judgment