Optimal · 15 hours ago
Production Engineer | Platform/Infrastructure/Python | Must Have Startup Exp
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$160K/yr - $210K/yr
3+ years expOptimal is a fast-growing AI-driven technology company transforming a highly manual industry through automation and intelligent systems. They are seeking a Production Engineer to take full ownership of infrastructure, deployment, and reliability, ensuring the platform scales safely and predictably as the business grows.
Staffing & Recruiting
No H1B
Responsibilities
Own uptime, availability, and resilience of production services
Design and implement self-healing systems
Improve fault tolerance and system reliability through code
Lead incident response and post-mortems with a prevention mindset
Architect and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines
Enable safe, reversible, and frequent deployments
Build internal tooling that makes the right way to deploy the easiest way
Improve deployment speed, confidence, and observability
Write backend code to support infrastructure, tooling, and automation
Manage databases including performance tuning, backups, and compliance
Support AI and human-in-the-loop pipelines with production-grade systems
Partner closely with product engineers to unblock delivery
Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems
Improve system visibility using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
Ensure teams can quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in production
Qualification
Required
3+ years' experience in backend, production, platform, SRE, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles
Strong hands-on coding ability (Python) - this is not a tooling-only role
Proven ownership of production systems, uptime, and reliability
Deep experience designing, running, and scaling CI/CD pipelines
Extensive, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (e.g. Compute, networking, IAM, databases, observability)
Experience building and operating cloud-native systems on GCP in production
Experience improving developer experience through internal tools and automation
Comfortable leading incident response, post-mortems, and preventing recurrence through code
Able to work independently with high ownership in a fast-moving startup
Strong communication skills across engineering and leadership
Based in the US with no visa sponsorship
Benefits
Meaningful equity (up to 1%)
Company
Optimal
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2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase