Senior DevOps Engineer
AngelList
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
Cloud & Virtualization
About AngelList:
We exist to accelerate innovation. We do this by giving more people the opportunity to participate in the venture economy by building the financial infrastructure that makes it possible for more people to invest in world-changing startups. We also build tools for startup founders that help them run their operations, so they can focus on building their company.
AngelList is the nexus of venture capital and the startup community. We support over $171B+ assets on our platform, and we’ve driven capital to over 13,000 startups. 57% of top-tier U.S. VC deals involve investors on AngelList.
While our scale is large, our ambitions are even larger – we’re innovating on the infrastructure for venture and individual investors and the startups they invest in. Come build with us!
About the Role:
We’re building the most efficient platform for operating funds and investing in startups. Our Platform team is small, fast-moving, and foundational to every product we build. As a Senior Software Engineer (DevOps), you’ll elevate how we architect and scale the infrastructure that support billions in venture assets.
We’re looking for someone who will design modern, resilient systems and help shape the future of infrastructure at AngelList. You’ll work closely with product engineering teams, ensuring they can ship quickly, securely, and confidently.
This role is right for someone who gets energy from enabling others. You'll be working directly on our Kubernetes production environments, improving our CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring we maintain high standards for observability, reliability, and efficiency. We're not just supporting developers—we're raising the bar for the platform they build on.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Architect and operate our production environments, including Kubernetes (K8s) clusters and RDS-backed databases on AWS.
- Design, implement, and manage modern CI/CD pipelines that empower fast, safe deployments across teams.
- Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, and ArgoCD to improve system reliability and repeatability.
- Elevate developer experience through tooling and workflow improvements.
- Monitor infrastructure health, triage incidents, and drive root cause analysis following modern SRE best practices.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership on infrastructure direction and roadmap planning.
You are most likely:
- An experienced software engineer with strong programming skills (with Ruby experience highly valued).
- Deeply experienced operating Kubernetes in production environment (this is a hard requirement).
- Fluent with PostgreSQL and MySQL in production, including deploying on AWS RDS.
- Holding a track record of designing and scaling CI/CD systems with modern tooling.
- Proficient in infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, ArgoCD).
- Comfortable working across AWS and GCP services in a production context.
- Product-minded—you're accustomed to making decisions that balance performance, reliability, and speed.
- Leading complex technical initiatives that enable rapid iteration across engineering teams.
How Success Will Be Measured
- Improved optimization of our production environments.
- CI/CD reliability and lead time to production improves across all engineering teams.
- Developer satisfaction with platform tools and workflows increases over time.
If you don’t tick every box above, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.
AngelList has offices in a few cities, and our engineering hub in San Francisco. We’re focused on hiring from this hub office so engineers and product teams can collaborate in the office at least twice per week (Tuesdays and choice between Wednesday or Thursday).
Compensation: The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, performance based variable component, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $200,000+ annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.
Benefits: We support our employees in their lives both inside and outside of work.
*See additional detail on our benefits here: https://angell.ist/venture-benefits
*Learn about our Funders & Founders Program here: https://join.angellist.com/
Working at AngelList: At AngelList, we are united in our purpose to accelerate innovation and build the future of private markets. Our beliefs and values shape how we work, collaborate, and create impact. If the below resonate, we’d love to have you with us.
*Beliefs: https://angell.ist/beliefs
*Values & Leadership Expectations: https://angell.ist/values
AngelList is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.