We're a venture-backed AI messaging infrastructure startup building production-grade systems that power AI agents across popular messaging platforms. As a founding macOS DevOps Engineer (mid-level Member of Technical Staff), you'll be a core member of a small, high-impact team responsible for building, operating, and scaling macOS data center infrastructure in San Francisco.
🏢 About [Company]
We're a venture-backed AI messaging infrastructure startup building production-grade systems that power AI agents across popular messaging platforms.
🎯 The Role
This is an on-site, founding-team role — you'll have significant ownership over the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of systems that developers and production workloads depend on every day.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Maintain and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale.
Build and continuously improve automation, deployment, and monitoring systems.
Develop automation tooling using Swift and shell scripting (bash/zsh).
Manage CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure.
Ensure high levels of system reliability, performance, and scalability.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and infrastructure issues.
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to support development and production workflows.
Drive improvements in DevOps practices and operational excellence across the organization.
📌 Required Qualifications
Proven experience in macOS DevOps — building and delivering production macOS data center infrastructure.
Strong proficiency in Swift (required; this is a dealbreaker).
Solid experience with shell scripting (bash/zsh) and infrastructure automation.
Strong knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure management.
macOS systems administration at scale — installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
Familiarity with Linux systems and tooling.
Understanding of networking concepts, system performance tuning, and reliability engineering.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at the systems level.
Ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable automation code.
⭐ Desirable Experience
Experience managing macOS fleets or data center environments.
Familiarity with MDM management tools (e.g., Jamf).
Knowledge of low-level macOS internals or system frameworks.
Experience with Rust or Objective-C.
🎁 Benefits
Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually Early-stage equity as a founding team member
