DevOps Engineer, Clever
$140-160k
+ Bonus + Equity
Real estate agent matching service
Be an early applicant
Real estate agent matching service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-160k
+ Bonus + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make selling or buying a home easier and more affordable fo everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate can reason about production systems, write code and automation, work near the backend application layer when needed, and partner across Engineering, Product, and Operations without slowing the company down
- 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
- We expect all team members to leverage AI tools as a natural part of their daily workflow — using them to handle routine tasks efficiently so you can spend more of your energy on the work that actually matters: collaborating, problem-solving, and driving strategy
- 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
What the job involves
- We're hiring a DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational foundation that keep Clever reliable, secure, and resilient
- This role sits around the application code: infrastructure, deployments, observability, secrets, environments, incident readiness, security controls, and reliable paths for internal tools and services
- The goal is simple: make Clever's infrastructure boring in the best possible way. High-risk releases should be observable and recoverable, production issues should be easier to detect and diagnose, and engineers should spend less time fighting environments, deployments, and one-off infrastructure decisions
- This is not a ticket-response operations role. We're looking for an engineer who can take ownership, identify recurring friction, prioritize the highest-leverage fixes, and drive improvements through to completion
- 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
- In 30 days… You understand Clever's core infrastructure, deployment paths, and operational risks, and you have shipped tangible improvements such as reducing noisy alerts, tightening a rollback path, improving staging/local development, documenting a high-risk runbook, or resolving a recurring infrastructure pain point
- In 6 months… Clever's most important infrastructure risks are no longer ownerless or invisible
- Critical systems have clearer alerts, runbooks, escalation paths, and production-readiness expectations, and engineers have better paths for deployments, environments, internal tools, and safe AI-enabled workflows
- In 12 months… Clever's infrastructure is measurably more reliable and easier to operate
- Deployments are safer, production issues are detected and resolved faster, repeated failure modes are less common, and the company has a stronger operational foundation for continued growth
Our take
Real estate commissions have been kept artificially high for decades. This is due to a mix of factors such as consumers feeling uncomfortable negotiating, and archaic pricing systems. Clever is changing all that with its discount brokerage service.
Using an algorithm along with “concierge” staffers, Clever matches homeowners with agents who have experience in their price range and neighborhood. As a result, agents get more sales and Clever effectively negotiates on behalf of the consumer.
It competes with other discount brokerages like Redfin, which attracts customers through aggregated realtor-sanctioned listings and provides discounts to home sellers through eventual rebates. However, Clever is earning market share through its differentiated strategies: intuitive customer experience and a portfolio of online content brands reaching millions of readers with expert real estate advice and education.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2023
$2m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$8m
SERIES B
Total funding: $20m
Company HQ
Central West End, St. Louis, MO
Leadership
Luke Babich
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder and Principal Investor of Arch Buyers. Also previously the Director of Strategy and Sales at L&T Co.
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