DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Pursuit is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our infrastructure, maintaining SOC 2 compliance, scaling vector search and document processing systems, and building AI-powered development infrastructure. You'll enable our engineering team to operate at 10x by transforming how we build software through AI agents that safely and securely spin up environments, run tests, and ship code in parallel. This is a remote-first position reporting directly to the CoFounder & CTO Brandon Max.

Key Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered development infrastructure that enables Claude Code and other AI agents to spin up isolated, ephemeral environments on demand
• Create secure sandboxing for AI-driven development with automated provisioning and teardown
• Maintain and evolve our fully Terraformed AWS infrastructure (ECS, Fargate, and supporting services)
• Manage vector search database infrastructure at scale, ensuring high availability and performance
• Operate and optimize S3-based document storage containing millions of documents
• Maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance and implement security best practices
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable faster deployments
• Build and maintain integration testing infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• Deep experience with AWS services, particularly ECS, Fargate, and S3
• Infrastructure-as-code expertise with Terraform
• Experience with AI-powered development workflows
• SOC 2 compliance mindset and understanding of security controls
• Experience with large-scale data systems like vector databases and document storage
• Autonomous operator mindset with startup resiliency

About Pursuit

Pursuit transforms how trillions in public-sector contracts are sought and awarded. We're an AI-first, top-investor-backed team that moves with urgency and thinks critically. Our mission is to remove friction from selling to the public sector, helping companies who sell to the public sector gain more pipeline, revenue, and productivity.