DevOps Engineer

A fast-growing AI-driven fintech startup headquartered in Downtown Boston is hiring a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer for a full-time onsite direct hire role. As the first DevOps hire, you’ll take full ownership of the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD strategy powering real-time AI and finance tools used by SMBs across the country. This role is onsite in the Back Bay area and offers a $170,000–$200,000 base salary, depending on experience.

This is a rare opportunity to build and lead the DevOps foundation at a high-impact startup that's redefining how businesses access capital. You’ll work directly with engineering and product leadership to design secure, scalable infrastructure, automate deployments, and drive observability across systems. If you're excited by complex, high-ownership challenges—like migrating from DigitalOcean to AWS ECS, scaling Django-based underwriting engines, and designing IaC with Pulumi—this is the place to do your best work.

Required Skills & Experience
· 5+ years of hands-on DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience
· Deep AWS expertise (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, MWAA)
· Strong experience with Django applications in production environments
· Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
· Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions
· Skilled in Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes a plus)
· Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices
· Python/Django test automation experience

Desired Skills & Experience
· SOC2 or other compliance familiarity
· Database performance optimization
· Experience leading cloud migrations (DigitalOcean ? AWS ECS)
· Monitoring setup with Prometheus/Grafana

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown
· 40% AWS Infrastructure (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)
· 25% CI/CD & IaC Automation (Pulumi, GitHub Actions)
· 20% Data Pipeline & Underwriting Engine Support (Airflow, Django)
· 10% Monitoring & Security
· 5% Cross-Team Enablement / DevOps Culture

Daily Responsibilities
· 80% Hands On
· 10% Strategic DevOps Planning
· 10% Team Collaboration / Cross-functional Support

The Offer
· Salary, Bonus, Equity

You will receive the following benefits:
· Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
· Paid Vacation Time
· Equity Options