Founding Engineer - DevOps / Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• CI/CD pipelines designed as meaningful gates, including build, test, static analysis, secret and dependency scanning, and migration safety.
• Worker infrastructure including container pools, queue-driven autoscaling, graceful draining, idempotent tasks, and cost-per-document optimisation.
• Repeatable deployments across customer-controlled cloud environments.
• A unified observability layer across deployments including logs, traces, metrics, and actionable alerting.
• Backend services and application infrastructure written in Python.
• Production reliability, incident response, and on-call practices.

Requirements:

• Strong production experience with Python, alongside infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years of experience running production infrastructure, including on-call ownership.
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration in production, including Kubernetes or serverless container platforms.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, including state and environment management.
• Experience building CI/CD systems from first principles.
• Experience with asynchronous job systems and understanding of their failure modes.
• Strong PostgreSQL operational experience.
• Experience working at a Series A or Series B startup for at least 1 year.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working across both GCP and Azure.
• Experience optimising infrastructure costs for LLM and AI workloads.
• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 requirements and evidence collection.