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Systems Engineer / DevOps

San Francisco
Salary
$120,000 - $180,000
Level
Junior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

Not stated in the posting: visa.

Open. First seen 22 October 2026.

About the role

About Deploy

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughout. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection.

Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.

Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.

DevOps and Systems Team

Our unique machine learning needs led us to open our own data centers, with an emphasis on GPU resources. Even with these data centers, we maintain a hybrid infrastructure into AWS to power some parts of our consumer apps. As we continue to commercialize our machine learning models, we also need to grow our DevOps and Systems team to maintain the reliability of a SaaS offering for our customers.

Our ideal candidate is someone who is able to thrive in an unstructured environment and takes automation seriously. You believe there is no task that can’t be automated and no server scale too large. You take pride in ensuring developers can deploy their servers without worrying about downtime.

Responsibilities

  • Automate manual operational processes
  • Improve workflows of developer, data, and machine learning teams
  • Manage integration and deployment tooling
  • Create, maintain, monitor, secure and audit infrastructure
  • Manage a diverse array of technology platforms, following best practices and procedures
  • Participate in on-call rotation and root cause analysis
  • Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
  • Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
  • Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
  • Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Requirements

  • Minimum 1 - 2 years of previous experience in development, operations, IT, or a related field
  • Comfortable working on Linux infrastructures (Debian) via the CLIAble to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
  • Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently independently
  • Able to physically lift equipment at least 30 pounds
  • Can communicate effectively across teams and management levels
  • Degree in computer science, or similar, is an added plus!

Technology Stack

  • Operating Systems - Linux/Debian Family/Ubuntu
  • Configuration Management - Chef/Ansible/Puppet/Salt
  • Containerization - Docker
  • Container Orchestrators - Mesosphere/Kubernetes
  • Scripting Languages - Python/Ruby/Node/Bash
  • CI/CD Tools - Jenkins
  • Network hardware - Arista/Cisco/Fortinet
  • Hardware - HP/SuperMicro
  • Storage - Ceph, S3
  • Database - Scylla, Postgres, Pivotal GreenPlum
  • Message Brokers: RabbitMQ
  • Logging/Search - ELK Stack
  • AWS: VPC/EC2/IAM/S3
  • Networking: TCP / IP, ICMP, SSH, DNS, HTTP, SSL / TLS, Storage systems, RAID, distributed file systems, NFS / iSCSI / CIFS

Who We Are

We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Deploy, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.

Thank you for your interest in Deploy and we hope to meet you soon!

The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $120,000 - $180,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Ansible · Cisco · IAM · Kibana · LLM · PostgreSQL · Puppet · RabbitMQ

Rare in Hive's other 42 open postings.

Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles

AWS · CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Python

Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.

Compared with Hive's other open jobs.

The team: Product & Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 71 open in Product & Engineering. 36 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in November: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Machine Learning (39 of 71), LLM (34 of 71), OWASP (34 of 71), Node.js (29 of 71), Python (27 of 71), JavaScript (26 of 71), Deep Learning (20 of 71)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Hive's own job board.

Other openings for this role

2 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 14 March 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

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