[Remote] DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clever Real Estate is a venture-backed real estate technology company focused on transforming the real estate experience through innovative technology. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to improve and maintain the infrastructure and deployment systems, ensuring reliability, security, and operational efficiency.ResponsibilitiesOwn and continuously improve the infrastructure and operational systems that support Clever's engineering teamsBuild safer deployment paths with automated health checks, documented rollback plans, and clear release visibility for high-risk services where the architecture supports themImprove production reliability across infrastructure, data stores, queues, background jobs, logs, alerts, and supporting servicesLead or support infrastructure migrations, production cutovers, and environment changes across Heroku, AWS, ECS, RDS, networking, and DNSStrengthen observability and incident response through better alerts, dashboards, escalation paths, post-incident follow-up, runbooks, and operational drillsDefine practical reliability targets, service ownership expectations, and production-readiness standards for critical systems, internal tools, integrations, and AI-enabled workflowsPartner with engineers on infrastructure-sensitive application work, including scaling, error handling, deployment risk, data access, rollback planning, and small backend or internal-tooling changesSupport SOC2 and security readiness by improving infrastructure controls, access patterns, vulnerability handling, evidence collection, and repeatable operational practicesImprove local development and staging environments so engineers can onboard, test, and validate changes with less frictionSkills5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering, including hands-on production infrastructure ownershipStrong production experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and services such as ECS, RDS, networking, IAM, DNS, and related operational patternsExperience operating or migrating production systems on Heroku, AWS, or similar platformsDeep understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback strategies, environment management, and release safetyStrong observability and incident-response experience across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, escalation, runbooks, and post-incident learningExperience with infrastructure-as-code, repeatable infrastructure templates, scripting, and automationComfortable reading backend application code and making well-scoped backend or internal-tooling changes when infrastructure and application behavior overlapStrong security and access-management judgment, including secrets management, environment controls, and least-privilege patternsStrong ownership mindset with a bias toward action, clear follow-through, and practical systems thinkingClear written communication and business judgment, especially for runbooks, technical decisions, operational standards, incident follow-up, and connecting infrastructure work to company impactNice to have experience with SOC2, security audits, Redis, background workers, queue systems, webhook delivery, Datadog, Sentry, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Docker, Django/Python, TypeScriptBenefitsMedical, dental, vision, and life insurance18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidaysAnnual budget for learning and career growthPaid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestonesExclusive access to Clever homeownership perksSupport for your remote workspace401(k): Retirement plan administered through Guideline6–12 weeks of paid parental leaveFree counseling sessions and optional weekly meditationCompany OverviewClever Real Estate offers a platform that allows users to find and interview real estate agents. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.listwithclever.com.