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$180,000–$210,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the design and development of automated, resilient platform technologies including Observability, DevOps, and ITSM. - Manage a team of platform engineers, driving technical roadmaps and ensuring platform reliability and security. - Build and operate OpenTelemetry observability platforms using LGTM stack on Kubernetes.

Python Terraform Kubernetes GitLab CI/CD Ansible

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$160,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Own the infrastructure and platform powering the marketplace, focusing on reliability, observability, security, and automation.
  • Manage production AWS and EKS clusters, infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions.
  • Build automation and internal tooling in Python, Bash, Go, and Node.js/TypeScript, and operate PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Temporal.

Office Hours is an on-demand expert network that connects leading organizations with trusted experts across various knowledge domains. The company is hyper-growth, profitable, and expanding quickly, backed by top marketplace investors.

$160,000–$190,000/yr
US

  • Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure, applications, and tooling for software-defined manufacturing.
  • Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables.
  • Collaborate with cross-team members to prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.

Bright Machines is an innovator in software-defined manufacturing, using intelligent automation to transform factories. The company is building a team of experts to create a new manufacturing category, offering a culture of innovation and impact.

US

  • Harden, simplify, and operationalize the production platform on Google Cloud Platform for enterprise customers.
  • Own and evolve core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code practices using Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Drive observability, developer productivity, and engineering culture to raise the bar across the team.

GC AI is the fastest-growing legal AI platform for in-house legal teams, building the future of legal work. With over 1,700 companies using the platform, including 150+ public companies and 25+ unicorns, the team has 10x'd revenue in 12 months and raised a $60 million Series B.

$90,000–$100,000/yr
Global

  • Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Go.
  • Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals, including scheduler, kubelet, controllers, and CRDs.
  • Harden platform infrastructure through security best practices like vulnerability scanning, container image signing, and admission controllers.

Vultr makes high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators. It is the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers across 185 countries.

$177,000–$208,283/yr

  • Lead cloud delivery and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable cloud environments across Google Cloud Platform.
  • Design and manage cloud infrastructure including networking, compute, storage, identity, and platform services.
  • Implement cloud security controls, hybrid connectivity, observability, and automation using Terraform and Kubernetes.

Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset, helping clients drive action and impact through data and insights using advanced technology platforms including Google Cloud and Salesforce. They are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work, dedicated to learning, solving tough problems, and continual innovation.

$100,000–$122,222/yr
Canada 8w PTO

  • End-to-end ownership of internal orchestration platform built on event-driven architecture with Redpanda, including code, architecture, and roadmap.
  • Own infrastructure-as-code using Terraform Cloud, manage Kubernetes workloads with Helm, and provide self-service tooling for engineering teams.
  • Set SLOs, handle production on-call, lead incident response, author design docs, and operate AI-natively using tools like Cursor and Notion AI.

Velora unifies Aplos, Raisely, and Keela into one company with a shared mission to help nonprofit organizations thrive by offering fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications tools. We are a financially solid company with a combined team dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.

EU

  • Design, build, and maintain platform infrastructure using IaC principles with tools like Terraform.
  • Develop memory services, vector storage patterns, and semantic search capabilities.
  • Operate a Kubernetes-based platform for the Data & AI department, enabling deployment and scaling via GitOps.

Redcare Pharmacy is Europe's No.1 e-pharmacy, striving to improve global health through innovation and collaboration. The company fosters a healthy, inclusive work environment where employees feel valued and inspired.

$190,000–$230,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and operate the infrastructure for a high-throughput messaging platform operating at 500K+ events/sec.
  • Build guardrails, runbooks, and validation gates that enable AI agents to safely execute deployments and operations.
  • Lead incident response and encode every fix as a new runbook and regression test.

Postscript is an AI messaging platform trusted by 20,000+ Shopify brands to drive revenue through SMS. The company is fully remote, backed by Greylock and Y Combinator, and has a culture of ownership and innovation.

Europe

  • Lead investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure, networking, and platform incidents.
  • Provide technical leadership for Kubernetes platform operations and drive automation initiatives.
  • Mentor engineers and develop operational standards, runbooks, and best practices.

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. Serving enterprises like Adobe, PayPal, and Volkswagen, Mirantis is committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in.

$185,000–$280,000/yr
US 4w PTO

  • Own cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, including Kubernetes, networking, databases, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Scale single-tenant deployments and build observability, incident response, and compliance practices.
  • Manage infrastructure cost, improve developer experience, and contribute to backend systems at the infrastructure-application intersection.

Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers with literature review and evidence synthesis. The company is a ~30-person Public Benefit Corporation with a high-agency, low-bureaucracy culture.

Global

  • Lead a high-leverage remote team of four infrastructure engineers, driving the evolution toward a scalable zero-toil platform.
  • Guide the team through an AI-driven engineering approach to reduce manual work and achieve zero-touch, scalable infrastructure.
  • Prepare and execute the strategy for CI/CD and artifact distribution systems to scale during a quality surge without increasing engineering toil.

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex business processes. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda is a fully remote and global company with 150+ engineers across 20+ teams, and is transforming into an AI-first organization.

Global

  • Design and maintain Grafana dashboards and telemetry visualizations to monitor system performance and platform health.
  • Develop and maintain modular Ansible playbooks to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
  • Configure observability solutions with Prometheus monitoring and alerting, and participate in Agile ceremonies.

Miratech is a global IT services and consulting company that helps visionaries change the world by supporting digital transformation for large enterprises. With nearly 1,000 full-time professionals across 5 continents and 25 countries, the company has a culture of Relentless Performance with a 99% project success rate and over 25% annual growth.

$154,700–$208,000/yr
US Canada

  • Design and build automated reliability and self-healing systems to protect production at scale.
  • Own and improve incident management tooling and on-call health, reducing alert noise and empowering teams.
  • Develop and evolve observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and performance regression detection.

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for improved safety, efficiency, and sustainability. As a public company with over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed, we foster a culture of growth mindset and collaboration.

US

  • Design, build, and scale reliable infrastructure for Klover's fintech platform using modern technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Istio.
  • Use AI agents as force multipliers to automate manual processes and improve developer experience.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure system reliability, performance, and security across production systems.

Attain powers Klover, a fast-growing fintech platform serving over one million active users monthly, processing over $1.5 billion annually. The company emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and innovation, with a culture of automation and AI-driven development.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and improve cloud foundations on Google Cloud Platform to support scalable, secure, and well-governed workloads.
  • Design and build platform capabilities across GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, and developer tooling.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code review, architecture guidance, and direct implementation.

Wpromote is a digital marketing agency focused on performance marketing and technology. The company fosters a diverse, inclusive culture with a remote-friendly environment and office hubs in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

Mexico

  • Drive security engineering initiatives and embed security across engineering teams.
  • Manage threats and respond to incidents with advanced automation and AI agents.
  • Architect secure solutions for AI/ML workloads and mentor team members.

EarnIn is a pioneer of earned wage access, building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those living paycheck to paycheck. They have an experienced leadership team and world-class funding partners, and are growing fast with a healthy core business.

Latin America

  • Build and operate the self-service infrastructure platform where developers and agents can validate changes in minutes.
  • Build golden paths for CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC to enable self-service provisioning and shipping.
  • Own reliability and observability, carrying on-call and turning recurring toil into automation.

Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, the company is a Series C firm with over 90,000 real estate professionals and has been ranked on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row.

US

  • Lead deployment and operation of product infrastructure in federal environments within AWS.
  • Build and maintain scalable, secure cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitLab CI.
  • Improve development and deployment processes, create tooling for telemetry, and foster documentation culture.

Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company that helps organizations proactively find and fix exploitable attack vectors. We are a team of former special ops cyber operators and engineers committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

$164,000–$218,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead design and evolution of secure cloud infrastructure and deployment systems for critical decentralized applications.
  • Drive improvements across CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and engineering productivity practices.
  • Collaborate with developers, security specialists, product leaders, and infrastructure teams in a remote-first environment.

Our partner is building and scaling secure, high-performance infrastructure powering one of the most widely used decentralized technology platforms in the world. They operate as a fully remote, globally distributed team with a focus on DevOps, security, and blockchain technology.

Canada

  • Serve as a senior technical leader designing and evolving infrastructure, automation, and cloud platform capabilities.
  • Partner with engineering, product, security, and operations teams to establish scalable DevOps practices and accelerate software delivery.
  • Influence architectural decisions, drive modernization initiatives, and champion best practices for developer productivity and operational excellence.

Conga unifies commercial operations to help companies run as connected, smarter businesses. With over 10,000 customers worldwide, including more than 50% of the Fortune 100, Conga fosters a community where colleagues can thrive through individual and team development.