Software Engineer (DevOps)

Workhelix • San Francisco, CA

113d

About The Position

We’re looking for a Software Engineer (DevOps) to help design, build, and maintain the systems that keep our platform fast, reliable, and secure. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who loves infrastructure, automation, and high-leverage backend work. You’ll work across backend services, CI/CD, and cloud architecture — enabling the entire engineering team to ship confidently and often. You’ll collaborate closely with backend and frontend engineers, owning our deployment pipelines, AWS environments, and infrastructure-as-code. The ideal candidate thrives in startup environments — solving problems pragmatically, balancing speed and reliability, and continuously improving tooling and processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant DevOps ownership.
• Deep experience with AWS primitives and cloud architecture.
• Strong expertise with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
• Skilled with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized application deployment.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• Strong background in Python, FastAPI, and SQL-based data layers.
• Proven ability to automate and streamline development and release workflows.
• Experience with VPNs (Tailscale, or similar).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth, fast, and reliable deployments.
• Manage and optimize our AWS environment (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.), and abstract to multi-cloud environments such as GCP and Azure.
• Build reproducible, scalable infrastructure using Terraform and other IaC tools.
• Containerize and orchestrate applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Improve monitoring, logging, and observability for all production systems.
• Partner with backend engineers to automate testing, staging, and release workflows.
• Contribute to backend services written in Python (FastAPI) with SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL.
• Write and maintain test suites and deployment scripts that keep systems stable and predictable.
• Help design and build APIs and integrations that connect infrastructure to product functionality.
• Support the team in diagnosing and resolving performance or reliability issues across environments.
• Work cross-functionally with product, backend, and frontend teams to deliver secure, reliable releases.
• Operate effectively in a fast-paced, async environment — communicate clearly and prioritize well.
• Contribute to technical documentation and help define standards for DevOps and deployment practices.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits.
• Chance to learn and collaborate with some of the most famous researchers in the AI and digital economy space: Andrew Ng, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andy McAfee, and Daniel Rock.
• The unique opportunity to help build a company, culture, and products from the ground up with a team that values healthy working practices.
• A high-trust, high-autonomy work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees