[Remote] DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clever Real Estate is a venture-backed real estate technology company focused on transforming the real estate experience through innovative technology. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to improve and maintain the infrastructure and deployment systems, ensuring reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously improve the infrastructure and operational systems that support Clever's engineering teams
- Build safer deployment paths with automated health checks, documented rollback plans, and clear release visibility for high-risk services where the architecture supports them
- Improve production reliability across infrastructure, data stores, queues, background jobs, logs, alerts, and supporting services
- Lead or support infrastructure migrations, production cutovers, and environment changes across Heroku, AWS, ECS, RDS, networking, and DNS
- Strengthen observability and incident response through better alerts, dashboards, escalation paths, post-incident follow-up, runbooks, and operational drills
- Define practical reliability targets, service ownership expectations, and production-readiness standards for critical systems, internal tools, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows
- Partner with engineers on infrastructure-sensitive application work, including scaling, error handling, deployment risk, data access, rollback planning, and small backend or internal-tooling changes
- Support SOC2 and security readiness by improving infrastructure controls, access patterns, vulnerability handling, evidence collection, and repeatable operational practices
- Improve local development and staging environments so engineers can onboard, test, and validate changes with less friction
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering, including hands-on production infrastructure ownership
- Strong production experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and services such as ECS, RDS, networking, IAM, DNS, and related operational patterns
- Experience operating or migrating production systems on Heroku, AWS, or similar platforms
- Deep understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback strategies, environment management, and release safety
- Strong observability and incident-response experience across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, escalation, runbooks, and post-incident learning
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, repeatable infrastructure templates, scripting, and automation
- Comfortable reading backend application code and making well-scoped backend or internal-tooling changes when infrastructure and application behavior overlap
- Strong security and access-management judgment, including secrets management, environment controls, and least-privilege patterns
- Strong ownership mindset with a bias toward action, clear follow-through, and practical systems thinking
- Clear written communication and business judgment, especially for runbooks, technical decisions, operational standards, incident follow-up, and connecting infrastructure work to company impact
- Nice to have experience with SOC2, security audits, Redis, background workers, queue systems, webhook delivery, Datadog, Sentry, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Docker, Django/Python, TypeScript
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidays
- Annual budget for learning and career growth
- Paid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestones
- Exclusive access to Clever homeownership perks
- Support for your remote workspace
- 401(k): Retirement plan administered through Guideline
- 6–12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Free counseling sessions and optional weekly meditation
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