macOS DevOps / Founding Engineer

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.

• 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.

$150,000 - $200,000 a year - Full-time, * Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 USD annually

• Early-stage equity as a founding team member
• Visa sponsorship: Not available