DevOps Engineer
Software Engineering
Los Angeles, CA, USA · Remote
About Furl
Furl is a small software startup building infrastructure the way we think it should be built: declarative, reproducible, and based on free and open source software. We run on AWS today, but we design for portability so we're never locked into a single cloud.
The role
You'll help own our cloud infrastructure end to end: provisioning it with OpenTofu, running workloads on Kubernetes, and shipping changes through GitOps with FluxCD. On a team this size, your work has direct impact, and you'll have a real say in the architecture as we move toward cloud-agnostic, FOSS-first infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code with OpenTofu
- Operate and scale our Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, and reliability work
- Manage application and cluster delivery through GitOps with FluxCD
- Improve CI/CD pipelines so engineers can ship quickly and safely
- Strengthen observability, alerting, and on-call practices
- Own security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access
- Evaluate and adopt open source alternatives to proprietary or cloud-specific services
- Write clear documentation and share knowledge with the rest of the team
Our stack
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| Cloud | AWS (today), designed to stay portable |
| Orchestration | Kubernetes |
| Infrastructure as code | OpenTofu (Terraform-compatible) |
| GitOps / delivery | FluxCD |
| Philosophy | Free and open source software wherever practical |
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience
- Production experience running Kubernetes
- Solid infrastructure-as-code skills with OpenTofu or Terraform
- Working knowledge of AWS core services (networking, IAM, compute, storage)
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows (FluxCD, Argo CD, or similar)
- Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort on the command line
- Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or Go
- A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset suited to a small team
Nice to have
- Experience with other clouds or bare metal, and with multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic design
- Hands-on time with self-hosted open source tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and similar)
- Kubernetes autoscaling experience (Karpenter, KEDA)
- Running stateful workloads such as PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
- Contributions to open source projects
How to apply
Send your resume or a short note about infrastructure you've built (links to code, blog posts, or open source work are welcome) to careers@furl.ai.