Reality Defender (YC W22)

DevOps Engineer

Reality Defender (YC W22)

full-time

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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