Founding Infrastructure Wizard (SRE)

Description

The company builds digital analysts that help law enforcement search evidence and solve crime.

Public servants across the U.S. use the platform to speed up cold case, homicide, gang, sexual assault, and other serious investigations, plus day-to-day administrative work.

The product is live with police departments, prosecutors, sheriffs, state investigators, and other criminal justice partners nationwide, helping them cope with heavy evidence volumes.

The team is small and close-knit, with former Palantir and Israeli Defense Forces engineers and operators.

The company has been covered by Axios, Comstock's Magazine, and two podcasts.

This founding role reports directly to the CTO and owns the company's infrastructure from start to finish. You will combine SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure work to build and run systems that agencies trust with sensitive evidence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run infrastructure on AWS, including GovCloud, and GCP, managed in Terraform and running on ECS.
• Build and maintain infrastructure that meets CJIS and government security standards for access control, encryption, logging, and audit readiness, working with the compliance team.
• Provision and scale GPU capacity for LLM and machine learning workloads, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.
• Own uptime, monitoring, alerting, and incident response, catching problems before they spread and resolving them quickly.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, environments, and tooling so a small team can ship quickly without weakening security.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience.
• Interested in strengthening U.S. government capability and public safety.
• A hands-on builder who acts quickly and does well in very fast-paced settings, aiming for your best work.
• Treats security and compliance as engineering problems rather than paperwork.
• Comfortable working in an early-stage company with many open questions, and drawn to problems no one has answered yet.
• Nice to have: experience with CJIS, FedRAMP, or similar government environments.

Conditions

Based in New York City (preferred), or the Bay Area, California, with hybrid arrangements available.

Salary between $160k and $250k, which may be adjusted based on experience and ability.

Given the sensitive nature of the work, the company supports employees through the FBI background check and CJIS clearance process as needed.

Only US citizens or visa holders are eligible.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity at founding-hire levels.
• Bonuses tied to company performance.
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution, paid regardless of your own contribution.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Health and dental coverage, either direct or reimbursed.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Discounted gym and class memberships.