macOS DevOps / Founding Engineer

About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're a venture-backed AI messaging infrastructure startup building production-grade systems that power AI agents across popular messaging platforms. As a founding macOS DevOps Engineer (mid-level Member of Technical Staff), you'll be a core member of a small, high-impact team responsible for building, operating, and scaling macOS data center infrastructure in San Francisco.

This is an on-site, founding-team role — you'll have significant ownership over the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of systems that developers and production workloads depend on every day.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Maintain and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale.

- Build and continuously improve automation, deployment, and monitoring systems.

- Develop automation tooling using Swift and shell scripting (bash/zsh).

- Manage CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure.

- Ensure high levels of system reliability, performance, and scalability.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and infrastructure issues.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to support development and production workflows.

- Drive improvements in DevOps practices and operational excellence across the organization.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required:

- Proven experience in macOS DevOps — building and delivering production macOS data center infrastructure.

- Strong proficiency in Swift (required; this is a dealbreaker).

- Solid experience with shell scripting (bash/zsh) and infrastructure automation.

- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure management.

- macOS systems administration at scale — installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.

- Familiarity with Linux systems and tooling.

- Understanding of networking concepts, system performance tuning, and reliability engineering.

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at the systems level.

- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable automation code.

Nice to Have:

- Experience managing macOS fleets or data center environments.

- Familiarity with MDM management tools (e.g., Jamf).

- Knowledge of low-level macOS internals or system frameworks.

- Experience with Rust or Objective-C.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually

- Early-stage equity as a founding team member

- Visa sponsorship: Not available

LOCATION

This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.

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