DevOps Developer
HeronAI
What You’ll Do
- Design and manage infrastructure and deployment pipelines that deliver unmatched speed and reliability for our clients.
- Create a seamless experience where data integration is instant and customers can generate actionable insights without friction.
- Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support rapid feature releases with robust testing and security measures.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness, using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure infrastructure aligns with our customer-first methodology and the fastest possible user experience.
- Maintain a focus on automation, enabling us to continually scale and adapt to customer needs.
- Enhance system monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.
- Drive efforts to achieve SOC 2 compliance, ensuring security protocols are robust and auditable.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure infrastructure aligns with customer-centric development.
- Continuously optimize performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of cloud resources.
- Develop strategies for incident response and recovery to minimize downtime.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- As one of our first hires, you’ll have the freedom to define how we build solutions.
- Choose the methodologies and tools that best meet our customers’ needs.
- Work on a high-growth platform backed by MIT, Harvard, Techstars, and Forbes-recognized innovation.
- Join us at an exciting time—we’ve grown our waitlist from 250 to 1,700 users in 10 months and recently secured $1.5M in seed funding.
- Solve critical gaps in the data analytics market and automate workflows for industries facing major workforce transformations.
Who You Are
- A professional with 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or systems engineering.
- Passionate about simplifying complex systems and delivering immediate value to end-users.
- A startup veteran who thrives in fast-paced environments and has experience in scaling up or being part of an exit.
- Deeply customer-focused and comfortable with test-driven, hypothesis-driven development.
- Adept at leveraging tools like AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines to optimize and scale solutions.
- Excited by the opportunity to work on financial data platforms and the challenges of consolidating and analyzing complex datasets.
Exceptional Candidates Will Bring
- A track record of creating transformative solutions in fintech or similar industries.
- Insight into the current data analytics market, including its gaps and opportunities for disruption.
- Experience working on products that prioritize speed, accessibility, and user experience.
- A history of driving growth and innovation, preferably within a high-growth startup or scale-up.
What Good Looks Like
Q1 Targets:
- Complete SOC 2 compliance audit, including MFA implementation and secure API handling.
- Achieve 99.9% uptime for platform stability during testing for 1,000 concurrent users.
- Automate CI/CD pipelines and ensure deployments are seamless with zero critical errors.
Q2 Targets:
- Implement load balancing to support 2,000 users with dashboards loading in under 1 second.
- Enhance database and API error handling for seamless QuickBooks and Excel API integrations.
- Optimize AWS infrastructure for cost efficiency with 20% savings on hosting costs.
Q3 Targets:
- Scale infrastructure to support 3,000 concurrent users with no degradation in performance.
- Introduce enhanced logging and monitoring systems for real-time incident response.
- Implement proactive alerts for system errors or unusual activity.
Q4 Targets:
- Build a scalable infrastructure to support enterprise clients, including integrations for SAP and Salesforce.
- Ensure platform scales to handle 5,000 users with <1% downtime.
- Collaborate with security efforts to add HIPAA compliance if required.
Why You’ll Love Working With Us
- Be part of a company that’s saving businesses hours every week and driving smarter growth.
- Work with a team of passionate innovators who see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the game.
- Develop alongside some of the best minds in tech, with connections to MIT, Harvard, and Techstars.
- We believe in working hard, celebrating wins, lots of ‘Fika’, and building a strong team dynamic that fosters creativity and collaboration.