Overview
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Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is a new social platform with an AI character creator. Build, share, and interact with AI bots and your friends directly in the Cantina or across the internet.
Cantina bots are lifelike, social creatures that operate across the internet. Bots offer a new media type for scalable, personalized content experiences with seamless group chat across voice, video, and text. If you’re excited about the potential of AI to shape human creativity and social interactions, join us in building the future.
The Role
As the sole Senior DevOps Engineer , you will own the design, deployment, and optimization of our AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient systems while establishing best practices for automation, monitoring, security, and governance. This role offers high visibility, ownership, and the opportunity to shape the company’s DevOps strategy from the ground up.
The Work
- Lead the practice of container-based microservices and serverless applications (ECS, EC2, Lambda) using Terraform and other automation tools.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Docker) to automate application, platform, and infrastructure deployments.
- Monitor systems, implement alerts, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Conduct security audits and ensure compliance with AWS best practices.
- Enforce cloud governance policies, including IAM, resource tagging, and cost management.
- Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans for critical infrastructure.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to assess requirements, recommend tools, and deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.
- Lead projects of moderate complexity and provide technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and mentorship across the company.
Qualifications
- BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Strong experience setting up, maintaining, and automating CI/CD systems
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform
- Knowledgeable in monitoring tools like Datadog and Sumo Logic, for dashboards, alerts, and metrics
- Fluency with source control (GitHub, GitLab, Git) and build systems (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Docker)
- Proficient with AWS services such as Redis, OpenSearch, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redshift, MongoDB, EC2, ECS
- Adept at scripting Python, Bash, Perl and automating infrastructure
- Proven ability to take ownership, lead projects, and influence engineering teams
Location
We have offices in Sunnyvale, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Brooklyn, NY. We offer fully remote and hybrid opportunities, with a preference for candidates in the Bay Area or within the Pacific Time Zone (PST).
Pay and Benefits
- Base salary range: $150,000 – $200,000
- Health care — premium coverage for medical, vision, dental; plus One Medical membership
- Monthly Wellness Stipend — $500/month
- Rest and Recharge — 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, federal holidays, and 2 floating holidays
- 401(k) — Eligible to participate on day one
- Parental Leave & Fertility Support
- Competitive salary & equity
- Lunch and snacks for in-office employees
- WFH equipment provided for full-time remote/hybrid employees