DevOps Engineer

**DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer** **NYC \- Onsite** A well\-funded, early\-stage startup building a high\-scale social platform from the ground up. They they’re hiring a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to help build and operate the systems that power production. This is a hands\-on role focused on reliability, automation, and developer velocity \- working across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern infrastructure tooling in a fast\-moving environment. **What you’ll work on** * Build and operate production infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) * Own and evolve Terraform\-based infrastructure * Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and release safety * Design and maintain observability systems (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting) * Improve system reliability, uptime, and incident response * Automate infrastructure and reduce manual operational overhead * Partner closely with engineers to improve developer experience and platform tooling About you * Experience operating production systems using AWS \+ Kubernetes * Strong hands\-on experience with Terraform (or similar IaC) * Background in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation * Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.) * Proven ability to support systems with a focus on reliability and performance * Comfortable working in a fast\-paced, startup\-style environment Nice to have * Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions, or Buildkite * Exposure to high\-scale consumer or real\-time systems * Strong debugging skills across infra, networking, and application layers Why it’s interesting * Greenfield\-ish infrastructure with real ownership * Chance to shape platform and engineering workflows from early stage * Work alongside a senior engineering team * Product is being built for significant scale from day one 📍 **Location:** New York City (5 days onsite)