Founding DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Private events and catering can significantly increase restaurant and event space revenue, but many venues are stuck using outdated, error-prone manual processes - unlike the sophisticated software employed by large chains. Perfect Venue is leveling the playing field by offering local restaurants and venues an affordable, user-friendly, event management tool to help local them compete with big chains. This is just the start, with plans to expand into a broader marketplace that includes other event services (DJs, florists, etc).

We’re hiring our first DevOps engineer to design and own our platform from first principles.

This is not a maintenance role.

We are migrating to a new cloud environment and rebuilding our infrastructure from the ground up. There is no legacy system to inherit, you’ll define how everything works: infrastructure, deployment, observability, and reliability. If you’ve wanted to build a system the right way, this is that opportunity. You won’t just improve systems, you’ll define them.

Key Responsibilities

You will have end-to-end ownership of our infrastructure and developer platform:

• Define and implement our infrastructure architecture from scratch
• Rebuild our CI/CD pipeline to better scale with a growing team
• Own all infrastructure-as-code and environment provisioning
• Design our observability strategy (metrics, logs, traces, alerting)
• Establish best practices for reliability, scaling, and incident response
• Own security fundamentals (secrets, access control, production hardening)
• Make foundational decisions on cloud, tooling, and architecture

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years DevOps/infrastructure
• Experience in both startup and scale up environments
• Expertise using infrastructure management tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with programming languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity that you can actually use
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums paid for you and cost sharing for dependents
• Flexible PTO and 401(k)
• Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family
• Hybrid schedule with three days per week in office

Perfect Venue is committed to building a winning team

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We will work to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.