Jobs · Engineering · California

DevOps Engineer

Phonely · San Francisco, CA · 6 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$150k–$180k/yrFull-time

About the role

This is an engineering position. You will be writing code, a lot of it and it will be a lot of work… if you’re looking for a cushy corporate job where nothing get done, I recommend checking out some of our competitors. If you’re looking to be a part of a winning team and to make a real difference read on.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly reliable cloud infrastructure that powers real-time voice AI systems with extremely low latency and high availability.
  • Own Kubernetes clusters end-to-end: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, networking, and debugging production incidents under real customer load.
  • Create and operate CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe iteration across multiple microservices and teams.
  • Create and operate observability systems (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) to detect failures early and rapidly diagnose production issues.
  • Partner with backend engineers to translate application requirements into scalable, secure infrastructure and clean deployment workflows.
  • Harden systems through strong security practices including IAM, secrets management, network isolation, and least-privilege access controls.
  • Optimize cloud performance and costs while maintaining reliability, developer velocity, and customer experience.
  • Implement and operate GitOps-driven deployment workflows, using Git as the source of truth for infrastructure and application state, enabling safe, auditable, and automated rollouts.
  • Lead incident response: investigate outages, coordinate fixes, write postmortems, and drive systemic reliability improvements.
  • Continuously improve resilience through load testing, chaos testing, capacity planning, and proactive infrastructure upgrades.

Requirements

  • 5+ years as a DevOps engineer
  • Experience writing async web apps using fastapi in Python
  • Builder of APIs, Clouds, CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with IaC, AWS, Database Management at scale
  • Understanding of good architecture, security practices
  • Strong technical and communication skills
  • Extensive experience with AWS & Kubernetes
  • Backend: Python, microservices, async programming
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Redis, ArgoCD, GitOps
  • Databases: Firebase, Supabase (PostgreSQL)
  • Frontend: Next.js
  • Observability & Monitoring: Datadog, logging, metrics, tracing
  • Telephony & Voice AI: SIP, voice APIs, real-time call handling
  • Other tools & practices: CI/CD, automated testing, resilient architecture

Qualifications

  • Must be a US citizen or hold a valid visa
  • Must be able to work in the United States

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash/Shell, Kubernetes, Python

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule
  • Competitive compensation ($150K - $180K)
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Company-paid meals
  • Team-building activities
  • Opportunities to travel and explore new places

Pay

  • $150K - $180K

Schedule

  • Full-time

Similar jobs

DevOps Engineer

DECAGreater Farmington Area· 2 mo ago
Engineeringapply on click2apply.net

DevOps Engineer

VerifoneAtlanta, GA· 2 mo ago
Information Technologyapply on ats.comparably.com

DevOps Engineer

Mach IndustriesHuntington Beach, CA· 2 mo ago
Information Technologyapply on jobs.ashbyhq.com

DevOps Engineer

Accenture Federal ServicesHerndon, VA· 2 mo ago
Engineering$100k–$203k/yrapply on boards.greenhouse.io

DevOps Engineer

TechnoMileMcLean, VA· 3 mo ago
Engineeringapply on workforcenow.adp.com