Senior DevOps Engineer, Hedra
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Creation lab building foundation models for next-gen human storytelling
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Creation lab building foundation models for next-gen human storytelling
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build foundation models into products that power the next generation of human storytelling.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles focused on software delivery
- CI/CD pipeline expertise designing and implementing automated build, test, and deployment workflows using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
- Infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet to manage configuration and provisioning at scale
- Container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and scaling applications efficiently
- Cloud platform proficiency with hands-on AWS experience including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and networking services
- Monitoring and alerting implementing comprehensive observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or ELK stack
- Release management experience with deployment strategies like blue-green, canary releases, and feature flags
- Scripting and automation proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go for building deployment tools and operational scripts
- Version control and branching strategies implementing GitOps workflows and managing complex release cycles
- Incident response and troubleshooting experience with on-call rotations, post-mortem processes, and system debugging
- Security integration implementing security scanning, secrets management, and compliance checks in CI/CD pipelines
- Performance optimization monitoring application performance and implementing solutions for bottlenecks
- Startup Experience is a must — we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a "punch the clock" disposition)
- Cross-functional collaboration working closely with development teams to understand requirements and implement solutions
- Disaster recovery and backup implementing robust backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures
- Self-motivated and independent — able to set accurate timelines for infrastructure projects and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to backup that opinion
- Low ego, high patience, strong communication skills
- Understand platform economics and developer productivity short and long term, with a focus on building tools that accelerate engineering velocity
- Mission-driven — we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA
- And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the technical vision accordingly
What the job involves
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will bridge the gap between our development and operations teams to accelerate software delivery while maintaining high reliability and security standards.
- You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines that enable our engineering teams to deploy our transformative AI-powered products rapidly and safely across our infrastructure
- You will work closely with product engineers to streamline the software delivery lifecycle, from code commit to production deployment.
- Your focus will be on automation, monitoring, and creating feedback loops that enable faster iteration cycles for our Character-3 foundation model and video processing applications. You'll implement deployment strategies, manage release processes, and ensure our development teams can ship features quickly while maintaining system stability
- You will collaborate with engineering teams to break down silos, implement DevOps best practices, and build the automation that supports our rapid innovation cycles. We're looking for a full-time hire in our San Francisco office
Our take
The relationship between machine learning and online content has grown closer in recent years, and Hedra is a video content platform that is pushing this symbiosis into new territory. Describing itself as a video foundation mode company, Hedra is building an online creation studio that helps users generate dialogue, audio and video from words.
As a digital presence automation tool, Hedra is moving beyond the likes of DallE and generative AI video content into more nuanced territory. Its most recent product is Character1, a video foundation model for longer-form video generation focusing on customizable AI-generated video characters.
Since Character1’s release in June 2024, more than 1.6 million videos have been generated via the platform, demonstrating the need for its August seed funding round. The $10 million investment will be channelled into developing new technology like a multimodal studio and workflow tool to complement its foundation model.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$32m
SERIES A
Aug 2024
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $42m
Company benefits
- Equity
- 401k (no match)
- Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
- Gym access (at our office)
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Lingelbach
(Founder & CEO)Previously Regina Casper Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University, was an Intern at NVIDIA, Postbaccaulaureate researcher at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a Scholar at the Janelia Research Campus.
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