DevOps Engineer

About the role

Clever is a venture-backed real estate technology company focused on transforming the real estate journey through innovation and technology. We are the leading online education platform in real estate, earning a 4.9 TrustPilot rating with over 3,800 reviews and saving consumers over $210 million in real estate fees.

Key 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
• 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

Qualifications

• 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
• 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

What Success Looks Like

• In 30 days: Understand Clever's core infrastructure, deployment paths, and operational risks, and ship tangible improvements such as reducing noisy alerts, tightening a rollback path, improving staging/local development, documenting a high-risk runbook, or resolving a recurring infrastructure pain point.
• In 6 months: Clever's most important infrastructure risks are no longer ownerless or invisible. Critical systems have clearer alerts, runbooks, escalation paths, and production-readiness expectations, and engineers have better paths for deployments, environments, internal tools, and safe AI-enabled workflows.
• In 12 months: Clever's infrastructure is measurably more reliable and easier to operate. Deployments are safer, production issues are detected and resolved faster, repeated failure modes are less common, and the company has a stronger operational foundation for continued growth.

What We Offer

• Salary: $140-160k base + bonus & equity
• 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

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Statement

Clever Real Estate provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.