Example Projects:
- Adopt and operationalize new data stores to support our growth trajectory: Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis.
- Scale our batch processing control plane for faster component creation and fulfillment.
- Build production-equivalent sandbox environments for customer testing, demos, and onboarding.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate core cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, databases, and networking layers.
- Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and security of Valon’s production systems as we scale to support major enterprise deployments.
- Evaluate, adopt, and operationalize new infrastructure technologies (e.g., Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis) to meet evolving product and scale requirements.
Ideal Background:
- 3–5 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud systems.
- Hands-on experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure at meaningful scale.
- Strong working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
Valon
Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing. They're a Series C company backed by a16z, transforming industries that others have written off as too complex to innovate.