Valency
Senior AI-Native DevOps / Operations Engineer (AMER)
Berkeley, CA · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 113 days ago
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About the role
- This is not a narrow infrastructure maintenance role.
- This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, production operations, and AI-era software delivery.
- You will help close the loop from agentically written software to reliable, performant systems in production.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, release controls, and deployment workflows
- Build and maintain highly reliable AWS-based production systems
- Create operational analytics that help close the loop between engineering, product, and customer experience
- Drive cost engineering and infrastructure efficiency as the system scales
- Build safer operating patterns for agent-assisted code changes and operational actions
- Implement testing, validation, approval, and rollback mechanisms that reduce operational risk
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and follow-through
- Partner with external vendors and partners when needed
- Own production operations and operational excellence for this function
- You will help build the production foundation for a category-defining company at an early stage
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility operating important production systems
- Deep AWS experience in real production environments
- Experience designing or significantly improving CI/CD systems and release processes
- Experience improving production reliability, performance, and operational response
- Comfort with container-based systems and orchestration platforms
Nice to have
- Strong judgment around guardrails, operational safety, and change management
- Startup experience, especially in fast-scaling environments
- Experience at high-scale SaaS companies that have gone through periods of rapid growth
- Experience owning or materially influencing platform engineering functions
- Experience with cost engineering / FinOps in AWS-heavy environments
- Experience designing systems for compliance-oriented environments
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP-related operational requirements
- Experience evaluating or implementing modern observability and workflow tracing stacks
Skills
- Tracing workflows across agent-driven and human-driven systems
- Designing approval paths for high-risk or high-impact actions
- Turning production signals into actionable inputs for product and engineering
- Helping close the loop between what the system is doing, how users experience it, and how the platform should evolve
- Improve cost efficiency across cloud infrastructure and platform operations
Compensation
- Compensation, Benefits & Equity
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
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