Senior DevOps Engineer

CHAOS Industries•San Francisco, CA

6d•$130,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com. The Role You’ll join a small, highly collaborative team building the secure cloud platform behind some of the world’s most advanced radar systems. Working alongside software, hardware, and systems engineers, you’ll design and operate the backend services and cloud infrastructure that ingest, process, and deliver mission-critical sensor data at scale. The systems you build must be reliable, resilient, secure, and performant—enabling operators to depend on them in the environments where they matter most. This is a high-ownership role where you’ll influence architecture, build production systems, and help define the engineering foundations of a rapidly evolving platform. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving hard infrastructure problems, scaling distributed systems, and building software that performs under demanding real-world conditions.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or permanent resident), as required for access to controlled technology.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Python and modern backend development.
Azure or another major cloud platform.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD.
Real-time data pipelines or distributed systems.
Frontend development using modern web technologies (TypeScript/React) or a willingness to work across the stack when needed.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure that powers distributed radar systems and backend services.
Develop high-performance services that ingest, process, and distribute real-time sensor data with low latency, high reliability, and security at scale.
Define infrastructure as code, automate deployments, and continuously improve the platform through modern DevOps practices.
Own observability, monitoring, resiliency, and operational readiness, ensuring production systems remain secure, scalable, and dependable in demanding environments.
Help shape the technical direction of the platform, making architectural decisions that support new capabilities, increasing scale, and long-term maintainability.
Partner closely with software, hardware, and systems engineers to deliver secure, reliable end-to-end capabilities from sensor to cloud.