Founding DevOps Engineer - California
Founding DevOps Engineer - California at Corgea — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Corgea
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 100000–210000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re hiring a Founding DevOps Engineer to help us build and scale secure, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure for a fast-moving startup.
This is a hands-on role for someone who is deeply technical, highly pragmatic, and able to move with urgency. You should be comfortable owning infrastructure end to end, writing code, improving developer velocity, and supporting enterprise-grade requirements without overengineering.
You’ll be working across cloud environments, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, and performance. We want someone who can make smart tradeoffs, automate aggressively, and keep systems fast, stable, and economical as we grow.
What you’ll do
Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments
Improve uptime, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our platform
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and internal developer tooling
Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code
Strengthen our security posture across cloud, application, secrets, access control, and runtime environments
Partner with engineering to improve build speed, release quality, and operational maturity
Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processes
Support enterprise customer requirements around security, scalability, compliance, and architecture
Troubleshoot production issues quickly and systematically
Write code and scripts to automate operational work and eliminate manual toil
What we’re looking for
3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
Experience with modern DevOps tooling such as:
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD systems
NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar observability tools
Solid scripting or coding ability in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or JavaScript/TypeScript
Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, IAM, secrets management, and production debugging
Familiarity with security tooling and concepts, including vulnerability management, cloud security best practices, least privilege, secrets handling, and secure software delivery
Experience supporting high-availability production systems
Ability to move quickly, operate independently, and make sound engineering tradeoffs
Comfortable with ambiguity, ownership, and startup pace
Nice to have
Experience in multi-cloud architecture
Experience with enterprise environments, compliance, or customer security requirements
Experience with incident management, on-call processes, and postmortems
Familiarity with security scanning, container security, SAST/SCA, or cloud security tooling
Experience building internal platforms or developer infrastructure
Experience working at a startup or high-growth company
What success looks like
Infrastructure is reliable, secure, and easy for engineers to use
Deployments are fast and low-friction
Costs are understood and actively optimized
Systems are observable and incidents are handled well
Security and enterprise requirements are handled without slowing the company down
Manual work gets automated away
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $100,000 – $210,000
Equity: 0.05% – 0.50%
Health Insurance, Dental and Vision
Flexible working hours
Why join us
You’ll have real ownership over the systems that power the company. This is a role for someone who wants to move fast, solve hard infrastructure problems, and build durable systems that support both product velocity and enterprise scale.