DevOps Engineer (Hayward)

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 environments
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform or equivalent)
• Experience automating systems using Python or similar scripting languages
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL operations and performance considerations
• Familiarity with modern observability tools (e.g. New Relic, Sentry, Datadog)
• Strong grasp of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM and network design
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads
  
  

Bonus points for

• Experience operating systems in high-traffic or mission-critical environments
• Exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration at scale
• Knowledge of additional scripting or systems languages
• Experience working in early-stage or high-growth startups
  
  

Why join

• Own critical infrastructure at a growing, well-funded AI-native fintech
• Work closely with a small, highly capable engineering team
• In-person, highly collaborative culture based in San Francisco
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Opportunity to build foundational systems that will scale with the company
  
  

If 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.