DevOps Engineer

About the role

This role sits around the application code: infrastructure, deployments, observability, secrets, environments, incident readiness, security controls, and reliable paths for internal tools and services. The goal is simple: make Clever's infrastructure boring in the best possible way. High-risk releases should be observable and recoverable, production issues should be easier to detect and diagnose, and engineers should spend less time fighting environments, deployments, and one-off infrastructure decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the infrastructure and operational systems that support Clever's engineering teams
• Build safer deployment paths with automated health checks, documented rollback plans, and clear release visibility for high-risk services where the architecture supports them
• Improve production reliability across infrastructure, data stores, queues, background jobs, logs, alerts, and supporting services
• Lead or support infrastructure migrations, production cutovers, and environment changes across Heroku, AWS, ECS, RDS, networking, and DNS
• Strengthen observability and incident response through better alerts, dashboards, escalation paths, post-incident follow-up, runbooks, and operational drills
• Define practical reliability targets, service ownership expectations, and production-readiness standards for critical systems, internal tools, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows
• Partner with engineers on infrastructure-sensitive application work, including scaling, error handling, deployment risk, data access, rollback planning, and small backend or internal-tooling changes
• Support SOC2 and security readiness by improving infrastructure controls, access patterns, vulnerability handling, evidence collection, and repeatable operational practices
• Improve local development and staging environments so engineers can onboard, test, and validate changes with less friction

Requirements

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering, including hands-on production infrastructure ownership

Strong production experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and services such as ECS, RDS, networking, IAM, DNS, and related operational patterns

Experience operating or migrating production systems on Heroku, AWS, or similar platforms

Deep understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback strategies, environment management, and release safety

Strong observability and incident-response experience across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, escalation, runbooks, and post-incident learning

Experience with infrastructure-as-code, repeatable infrastructure templates, scripting, and automation

Comfortable reading backend application code and making well-scoped backend or internal-tooling changes when infrastructure and application behavior overlap

Strong security and access-management judgment, including secrets management, environment controls, and least-privilege patterns

Strong ownership mindset with a bias toward action, clear follow-through, and practical systems thinking

Clear written communication and business judgment, especially for runbooks, technical decisions, operational standards, incident follow-up, and connecting infrastructure work to company impact

Qualifications

We expect all team members to leverage AI tools as a natural part of their daily workflow — using them to handle routine tasks efficiently so you can spend more of your energy on the work that actually matters: collaborating, problem-solving, and driving strategy.

Skills

• Nice to have experience with SOC2, security audits, Redis, background workers, queue systems, webhook delivery, Datadog, Sentry, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Docker, Django/Python, TypeScript

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Paid Time Off: 18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidays
• Professional Development: Annual budget for learning and career growth
• Tenure Sabbaticals: Paid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestones
• Clever Product Benefit: Exclusive access to Clever homeownership perks
• Work-From-Home Stipend: Support for your remote workspace
• 401(k): Retirement plan administered through Guideline
• Parental Leave: 6–12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness Benefits: Free counseling sessions and optional weekly meditation

Pay

$140-160k base + bonus & equity

Schedule

Remote [United States]