DevOps Engineer (initially remote, but will be onsite in 3-6 months)

We’re a post-PMF B2B startup with ARR growing exponentially every month. With customer usage exploding, we’ve reached a tipping point where we need a dedicated DevOps Engineer to own our infrastructure and reliability. Our current infra stack is a mix of Heroku and AWS, but we’re planning to migrate off Heroku this year due to scaling limitations and cost inefficiencies.

This role is crucial in freeing up engineers from DevOps tasks, optimizing infrastructure to reduce spend, and ensuring our systems are reliable, scalable, and secure.

We’re a remote team that’s looking to build our teams in San Francisco (CA), Austin (TX), and Tempe (AZ) locations. This will be initially a remote role, but will be in-person role in 3-6 months.

What You’ll Own & Drive:

• Lead our migration off Heroku – Evaluate and execute the right infrastructure strategy as we scale.
• Optimize cloud costs – Identify inefficiencies and make infra right-sized to pay for itself.
• Site reliability & DevOps processes – Build better QA, monitoring, and incident response systems to improve uptime and mitigate risk.
• CI/CD & automation – Improve deployment workflows and developer efficiency.
• Security & compliance – Ensure best practices are implemented for infrastructure security.

Skills & Experience We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure experience.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, or similar tools.
• Strong background in CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments.
• Experience with scaling web applications & databases.
• A cost-conscious approach to infrastructure—knows how to optimize spend while maintaining performance.
• Ability to lead major infra projects, from Heroku migration to SRE best practices.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup with a bias toward action.

Bonus If:

• You have experience migrating off Heroku or handling large-scale infra transitions.
• You’re familiar with Ruby on Rails, React, and Postgres environments.
• You’ve built monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems from scratch.
• You’ve worked directly with founders and small teams to move fast and execute.

How to Apply

Instead of a cover letter, please send over a link or details of past projects that show your experience and impact.

Important Note: Instead of a cover letter, please send over a link or anything that my team and I can review to quickly figure out if we have a fit. Just show us that you can do this job.

Please do not reach out if you are a recruiter, thanks!

We move fast at Soraban so we've designed our interview process to look for candidates who can hit the ground running quickly.

Below is what to expect in our interview process.

1. Quick phone screen
2. Technical screen over Zoom
3. Offer.

The typical interview process should take 14 days from start to finish. That said, we have moved more quickly and look to accommodate candidates who might have a short timeline or competing offers. The more information you can share about your situation and where you are in the process, the more we can either attempt to expedite/match, or save you time if we cannot.