Artisan · 21 hours ago
Staff DevOps Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $300K/yr
6+ years expArtisan is a company focused on building autonomous AI employees that perform real jobs. The Staff DevOps Engineer will own the full DevOps and infrastructure layer, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the systems that support their AI products and services.
Telecom & CommunicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)SaaSSoftwareInformation TechnologyAgentic AIInternet
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
You'll own the full DevOps and infrastructure layer at Artisan
You'll set the foundation, define the practices, and build the systems that everything else depends on
Kubernetes and container orchestration
You'll own cluster management, scaling policies, resource optimization, and the overall compute layer that serves AI workloads, data pipelines, and customer-facing product infrastructure
CI/CD and deployment pipelines
You'll build and maintain the deployment infrastructure that lets engineers release with confidence, multiple times a day
Automated testing, staging environments, rollback strategies, feature flags
Observability and reliability
Monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing
When an AI agent fails to send an email or a pipeline stalls on lead enrichment, the team needs to know immediately and understand why
You'll build the observability layer from the ground up
Email deliverability infrastructure
Ava sends email at scale across thousands of domains and mailboxes
Sender reputation, domain warming, DNS configuration, IP management
The infrastructure layer here is non-trivial and directly impacts customer outcomes
Security and compliance
We handle customer data, email credentials, and business-critical workflows
You'll own security posture across the stack: secrets management, access controls, network policies, vulnerability scanning, and SOC 2 readiness
Cost optimization
AI workloads and data-intensive pipelines at our scale generate real cloud bills
You'll architect for efficiency, right-size infrastructure, and build visibility into where spend goes and why
Developer experience
The best infrastructure is the kind engineers don't have to think about
Local development environments, fast builds, reliable deploys, clear documentation
You'll make the whole team faster
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of owning production systems end to end
Deep expertise with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architecture on AWS
Strong CI/CD experience: you've built pipelines that teams actually trust and use daily
Fluent in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent) and GitOps workflows
Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals
Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar)
Comfortable scripting in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling
Experience operating databases in production (PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar)
Strong opinions on reliability, incident response, and on-call practices, but pragmatic about when to move fast
Preferred
Experience with email infrastructure at scale (deliverability, domain/IP management, SMTP)
Experience supporting ML/AI workloads in production
Startup experience where you built the infrastructure function from scratch
Benefits
Competitive salary + meaningful equity.
Company
Artisan
At Artisan, we're creating AI Employees, called Artisans, and software which is beautiful, easy to use, and replaces the endless stack of point solutions.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$46.1MKey Investors
Alumni Ventures,Glade Brook Capital PartnersOliver JungBayhouse Capital,Oliver Jung
2025-04-09Series A· $25M
2024-09-30Seed· $11.5M
2024-05-13Seed· $7.3M
Leadership Team
Jaspar Carmichael-Jack
Founder & CEO
Sam Stallings
Founder & CPTO
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