About the role
The Company
We’re building a web-based AI app builder that lets non-technical users create and deploy real applications without writing code. Our users expect things to “just work”—which means the platform underneath must be fast, reliable, and invisible.
We’re an early-stage, YC startup building a small, high-ownership founding team.
The Role
We’re hiring a Founding DevOps Engineer to own infrastructure, reliability, and operational excellence from day one. This is a staff-level role with architectural authority and long-term impact.
You’ll design systems that support AI-powered workloads, rapid iteration, and a product where non-technical users never think about infrastructure—yet can get instant help when something goes wrong.
Human-in-the-Loop Infrastructure (What Makes This Role Unique)
A core differentiator of our product is a human-in-the-loop marketplace.
When a user’s app breaks or behaves unexpectedly, a vetted human developer can instantly jump into that user’s running VM, diagnose the issue, and fix it in real time—often before the user even understands what went wrong.
As a founding DevOps engineer, you will:
- Design secure, auditable VM access for third-party human developers
- Build fast, safe workflows for live debugging and remediation
- Integrate deep observability so humans can act with full context
- Ensure isolation, permissions, and trust boundaries are rock-solid
This system is powered by strong observability and tooling, including Sentry-style error tracking, logging, metrics, and traces that tie user-visible issues directly to infrastructure and code.
