DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer

NYC - Onsite

A well-funded, early-stage startup building a high-scale social platform from the ground up. They they’re hiring a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to help build and operate the systems that power production.

This is a hands-on role focused on reliability, automation, and developer velocity - working across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern infrastructure tooling in a fast-moving environment.

What you’ll work on

• Build and operate production infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Own and evolve Terraform-based infrastructure
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and release safety
• Design and maintain observability systems (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)
• Improve system reliability, uptime, and incident response
• Automate infrastructure and reduce manual operational overhead
• Partner closely with engineers to improve developer experience and platform tooling

About you

• Experience operating production systems using AWS \+ Kubernetes
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (or similar IaC)
• Background in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
• Proven ability to support systems with a focus on reliability and performance
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup-style environment

Nice to have

• Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions, or Buildkite
• Exposure to high-scale consumer or real-time systems
• Strong debugging skills across infra, networking, and application layers

Why it’s interesting

• Greenfield-ish infrastructure with real ownership
• Chance to shape platform and engineering workflows from early stage
• Work alongside a senior engineering team
• Product is being built for significant scale from day one

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Location:

New York City (5 days onsite)