DevOps Engineer

Prudentia Sciences•Cambridge, MA

11d•$180,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We're seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to build and own the infrastructure, deployment, and reliability foundation of our platform as we scale. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-impact technology company in a major growth stage, where you'll ensure our pharma and biopharma customers can depend on a secure, highly available platform to run their most sensitive due diligence and valuation workflows. Our platform is quickly seeing exceptional demand in its sector, and is backed by top-tier life science investors who have an informed perspective on where AI can have a profound impact in the industry.

Requirements

Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating production infrastructure in the cloud (AWS), including networking, compute, storage, and IAM.
Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) to manage infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled way.
Expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating build, test, and deployment workflows.
Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems, and using them to drive down MTTR/MTTD.
Comfort working with both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB), including backup, replication, and performance considerations.
Familiarity with best practices for secure infrastructure, secrets management, and compliance (especially valuable in healthcare, life sciences, or enterprise environments).
Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go) for building automation and internal tooling.
Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to work closely with software engineers, ML engineers, and product managers to deliver a reliable, scalable platform.
Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset.
Passion for continuous learning, rapid prototyping, and iterating based on system and user needs.
Autonomous, self-starter attitude with a strong sense of ownership.
Excellent communication skills. You should feel comfortable presenting on security architecture to a client’s security team.
Collaborative team player with a desire to build things that truly matter.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or biopharma sectors.
Willingness to dive into the field and a curiosity to learn about life sciences and the drug development process, and how deal making revolves around it.
Automated DORA metric tracking.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent) using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) to keep environments reproducible, auditable, and scalable.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support fast, reliable, and safe deployments across the platform's frontend, backend, and ML orchestration services.
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (Grafana) to give the team real-time visibility into system health and quickly surface issues before they impact customers.
Drive reliability engineering practices, including uptime targets, SLOs/SLAs, incident response processes, on-call rotations, and driving accountability for PIRs.
Implement and enforce best practices for secure infrastructure, including network security, secrets management, access controls, and data protection.
Monitor and optimize cloud spend and system performance, balancing cost efficiency with the reliability and scalability the platform requires.
Partner with engineering to manage and scale data infrastructure (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, Pipelines), including backups, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
Build tooling and self-service workflows that make it easy for engineers to deploy, test, and debug their services, reducing friction across the development lifecycle.
Work cross-functionally with software and ML engineers, product leads, and domain experts to translate scaling and reliability needs into concrete infrastructure investments.