Founding DevOps Engineer
Novoflow, San Francisco, California +1
- Pay
- $120K–$250K / year
- Work type
- Remote
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Infra, platform & SRE
- Posted
- Nov 8, 2025
About the role
About Novoflow
Novoflow is building AI Employees for medical clinics. We see two industry-breaking problems: over 400 EHRs, 1000s of vendors, and millions of patients all lacking interoperability across healthcare, and a trail of operational inefficiency following it. We’re building the scalable, reliable, and safe AI infrastructure that solves this problem.
With multi-year contracts secured and strong investor backing from YC advisors and top investors, we’re scaling fast to meet skyrocketing demand.
Why Join Us?
- Impact: Be a key contributor to cutting-edge technology, transforming industries.
- Growth: Thrive in a dynamic, high-ownership environment alongside top-tier talent.
- Innovation: Work with advanced tools and push technological boundaries.
- Autonomy: Drive your own initiatives and influence the company’s technical direction.
About the Role
We’re seeking a former team lead with hands-on experience in building and deploying agentic systems and large-scale data processing pipelines. You should take pride in your work and write high-quality, scalable code. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment, we want to hear from you.
What You’ll Do:
- Build Product: Rapidly contribute to building the cloud infrastructure for AI employees, being the founding lead for cloud-b
- Technical Leadership: Drive technical decisions and architecture design, shaping the foundation of our solutions.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with co-founders and other team members to translate business vision into actionable project plans.
- Ownership: Take full product ownership from ideation to launch.
Who You Are / Must-Haves:
- Startup Experience: Strong preference for candidates with prior startup experience. Former founders are especially valued for their entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving skills.
- Prior Experience: 5-15 years of hands-on engineering experience. Team leads or principal DevOps engineers who have grown teams from an early stage.
- Educational Background: Ideally, candidates should have attended a college ranked in the top 50 in the United States.
- Backend Skills: Strong background in JS/Typescript and Python (we also build voice agents!)
- Frontend Skills: Proficiency in Next.js.
- Cloud Platforms: AWS services, Terraform, and Postgres.
- Scalability: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
- Regulatory: Basic or professional experience with HIPAA is useful.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Base salary plus equity
- Gym Membership
- Wellness allowance
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Live with us in a dedicated 3,500 sq. ft. hackerhouse.
- A large snack supply
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