
DevOps Engineer
Reality Defender (YC W22)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $250,000 per year
About the role
- Architect and operate high-availability, low-latency cloud infrastructure for real-time AI inference services.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, safe iteration across backend and ML systems.
- Own production reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Lead infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Partner closely with backend and ML engineers to productionize new models and services.
- Harden our systems for security, compliance, and data protection.
- Optimize cost, performance, and scalability as usage grows.
- Establish best practices around observability, deployment strategies, and disaster recovery.
Requirements
- 4+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred)
- Strong production experience with:
- Kubernetes & container orchestration
- CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code
- Linux & networking fundamentals
- Proven track record supporting distributed, high-traffic systems.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
- Strong security mindset and experience with secrets management, IAM, and network isolation.
Benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud infrastructureCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as CodeKubernetescontainer orchestrationLinuxnetworking fundamentalsmonitoringloggingalerting
Soft Skills
production reliabilityincident responsecapacity planningcollaborationbest practices establishment