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DevOps Developer

HeronAI

HeronAI

Software Engineering
Buffalo, NY, USA
Posted on Jun 12, 2025

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.