We’re hiring an AI-native DevOps / Operations Engineer to help build and operate the platform behind Valency. This is not a narrow infrastructure maintenance role. We want builders who can design and harden production systems, improve CI/CD and release quality, raise reliability and response times, and create the observability, analytics, and guardrails needed to safely operate a rapidly evolving platform.
🏢 About Valency
Valency Systems is a small, dynamic team of engineers, scientists, and researchers building the global hub for the agentic research era. We're based in Berkeley, California, and we're building something that matters. If you care about open science, advancing research at the speed of thought, and using AI to accelerate discovery, we'd love to talk. Our team is hybrid. We come together in person 3 days a week, with the option for 2 days of remote work.
🎯 The Role
This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, production operations, and AI-era software delivery. You will help close the loop from agentically written software to reliable, performant systems in production. That means better tests, better release controls, stronger guardrails, richer production telemetry, clearer workflows for human approval, and tighter feedback into product and engineering.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and improve the production platform powering Valency
Tighten CI/CD processes so changes are tested, gated, observable, and safe to ship
Improve production reliability, latency, deployment safety, and incident response
Build the operational feedback loops that help engineering and product teams act on real production behavior
Establish the right logging, analytics, tracing, alerting, and workflow instrumentation as the platform scales
Define and implement guardrails for agent-involved software delivery and operations
Introduce human-in-the-loop approval flows where autonomy needs stronger controls
Improve cost efficiency across cloud infrastructure and platform operations
Help shape security, compliance, and auditability foundations for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP-oriented environments
Contribute to the long-term platform engineering direction as the team grows and specializes
Own production operations and operational excellence for this function
Lead incident response expectations for the role
Establish the operating model the broader team will scale on
Work onsite in the SF Bay Area
📌 Required Qualifications
8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility operating important production systems
Demonstrated success shipping and running high-reliability systems in production
Deep AWS experience in ECS / Fargate, EKS / container orchestration environments, RDS, S3, Cloudflare, CloudWatch, Queues, caches, schedulers, and batch / background processing systems
⭐ Desirable Experience
Experience with GitHub Actions and evolving it into a stronger long-term platform engineering and delivery foundation
Experience building observability and analytics stacks
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