Senior DevOps Engineer - AI-Native Fintech
Location : San Francisco - Onsite 5 days per week
Team : #1 DevOps hire, 15 Engineers
Salary : $180K - $275K + Strong Equity
Were building an AI-native fintech platform thats modernizing how finance teams operate. Backed by top tier investors and serving a fast growing customer base, were focused on creating secure, scalable systems that can support complex financial workflows at speed.
Were looking for a DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure that underpins our product - someone who cares deeply about reliability, security, and automation, and enjoys working closely with application engineers.
What youll be doing
- Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code
- Own deployment pipelines and automate operational workflows to keep the team moving fast
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure system health and rapid incident response
- Manage and optimize production databases, including performance tuning, backups, and replication
- Establish and enforce infrastructure security best practices across environments
- Partner with product and engineering teams to support smooth releases and resolve production issues
- Build for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery from day one
What were looking for
Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environmentsProficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform or equivalent)Experience automating systems using Python or similar scripting languagesSolid understanding of PostgreSQL operations and performance considerationsFamiliarity with modern observability tools (e.g. New Relic, Sentry, Datadog)Strong grasp of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM and network designExperience supporting CI / CD pipelines and containerized workloadsBonus points for
Experience operating systems in high-traffic or mission-critical environmentsExposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration at scaleKnowledge of additional scripting or systems languagesExperience working in early-stage or high-growth startupsWhy join
Own critical infrastructure at a growing, well-funded AI-native fintechWork closely with a small, highly capable engineering teamIn-person, highly collaborative culture based in San FranciscoCompetitive compensation and meaningful equityOpportunity to build foundational systems that will scale with the companyIf you enjoy building reliable systems, automating everything you can, and being close to both product and engineering decisions, this role offers real ownership and impact.