DevOps Engineer
Phonely · San Francisco, CA · 4 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