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Why This Role Matters\ Our infrastructure is at a turning point. We currently run a mix of Heroku and AWS, but with scaling and cost pressures, we’re migrating off Heroku and need someone to lead that effort. You’ll own core responsibilities around infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud hosting, and DevOps — helping us stay reliable, secure, and cost-efficient as we grow.
We’re a remote team that’s looking to build our teams in San Francisco (CA), and Tempe (AZ) locations. This will be initially a remote role, but will be in-person role in 3-6 months.
What You’ll Own & Drive
- Lead our migration off Heroku – Evaluate and execute the right infrastructure strategy as we scale.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Set up and manage AWS environments optimized for performance and cost. Familiarity with RDS, EC2, ALBs, IAM, and VPC networking is ideal.
- Lead our cloud hosting initiative – Take ownership of our customer hosting platform (initially low-scale), ensuring it is secure, stable, and positioned to scale as we expand. You’ll help operationalize this offering and work with the core team to grow it into a meaningful part of our business.
- Site reliability & DevOps processes – Build better QA, monitoring, and incident response systems to improve uptime and mitigate risk.
- CI/CD & automation – Improve deployment workflows and developer efficiency.
- Security & Key Management: Implement robust secrets management, security hardening, and compliance-minded infra practices.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Use Terraform (or similar) to provision reproducible, scalable environments.
- Simple, Pragmatic Design: Balance speed and simplicity—future-proof when it matters, not for its own sake.
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure experience.
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, or similar tools.
- Strong background in CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments.
- Experience with scaling web applications & databases.
- A cost-conscious approach to infrastructure—knows how to optimize spend while maintaining performance.
- Ability to lead major infra projects, from Heroku migration to SRE best practices.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup with a bias toward action.
- Excellent communication skills (clear written and spoken English).
- Security-minded: You think about least privilege, auditability, and secrets hygiene.
- You have experience migrating off Heroku or handling large-scale infra transitions.
- You’re familiar with Ruby on Rails, React, and Postgres environments.
- Experience with Windows servers, Active Directory, RDS.
- You’ve built monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems from scratch.
- You’ve worked directly with founders and small teams to move fast and execute.
Instead of a cover letter, please send over a link or details of past projects that show your experience and impact.
Important Note: Instead of a cover letter, please send over a link or anything that my team and I can review to quickly figure out if we have a fit. Just show us that you can do this job.
Please do not reach out if you are a recruiter, thanks!