Make deployments boring (in the best way possible)
Own CI/CD pipelines: optimize build times, improve caching, reduce flakiness
Evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) deployment strategy for reliability and speed
Manage container builds and lambdas
Extend our telemetry with better instrumentation, smarter sampling, and actionable dashboards
Build alerting that catches actual problems and ignores noise
Make the feedback loop from code to production as fast as possible
Improve preview environments, local dev tooling, and testing infrastructure
Eliminate toil and repetitive work through thoughtful automation
Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on infrastructure at scale
A proven record of exceptional achievements and impact
Willingness to work hard, move fast and grow quickly in a rapidly changing environment
An exceptional ability to learn
Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production (we run EKS)
Strong Terraform skills—you've managed real infrastructure as code
Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dash0, Braintrust, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging
PostgreSQL performance tuning, connection pooling, read replicas
AWS services: Lambda (event-driven processing, background jobs, API backends), S3, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch
You've been on-call and you've built systems that made on-call better
You think like a product manager for internal tools, where the product is developer productivity
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

Benefits

Competitive compensation—optimized for you and your future.
Meaningful equity—you’ll own a real piece of something that could be huge.
Founding team influence—your voice will shape direction.
Creative freedom—evolve and steer both current and future product identity.
Platform to shine—use Obvious’s reach to amplify your personal brand and design voice.
Room to grow—as we scale, opportunities are limitless.
In-person hackathons—we’re semi‑distributed and regularly meet in person to lock in and build together.
Excellent benefits—fully covered health, vision, and dental, 401k match, parental leave, home office stipend, and more.
Work comfortably—choose between a $10,000 home office makeover stipend or paid co-working spaces.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesTerraformCI/CD pipelinesPostgreSQLAWS LambdaAWS S3AWS RDSAWS CloudWatchOpenTelemetryDatadog

Soft Skills

exceptional ability to learnhumble attitudeeagerness to helpdesire to succeedability to work hardability to move fastability to grow quicklyproduct management thinkingcollaborationproblem-solving