DevOps Engineer

Overview

Senior Dev Ops Engineer (Freelance | Remote | Global)

Bespoke Labs - Mountain View, California (VC-backed, founded by IIT & Ivy League leaders)

Type: Contract | Remote | 30–40 hrs/week | 8–16 weeks

Pay: $40–$70/hr

Bespoke Labs is a VC-backed applied AI research startup based in Mountain View, California. We build core infrastructure and reinforcement learning environments that directly train and evaluate intelligent agents—the systems behind AI, not just the tooling around it.

We focus on building the datasets and benchmarks that shape the future of AI. Our work includes Open Thoughts
, one of the most widely used reasoning datasets (100K+ monthly downloads, 200+ models trained, 100+ citations), and Terminal Bench
, a leading agentic coding benchmark referenced in Claude 4.5 and actively used by frontier AI labs.

We re building a new AI training initiative that requires real-world engineering experience
. You’ll help design and document authentic Dev Ops + backend scenarios based on incidents you’ve handled—outages, scaling issues, secure deployments, distributed systems challenges, and more. Your experience will directly train next-generation AI systems.

• Capture real Dev Ops + backend incidents and convert them into benchmark tasks
• Contribute to secure, scalable, Kubernetes-native architectures
• Work across CI/CD, observability, identity, infrastructure-as-code, and backend services
• Collaborate with our team to build realistic engineering workflows

Strong hands-on experience in Dev Ops and/or Backend Engineering
, including:

• Experience with secure, offline/air-gapped deployments (big plus)
• Familiarity with at least five of the following:
• Identity & Access Management
• Observability (Prometheus + Grafana)
• Keycloak
• Terraform OSS
• ML/Distributed pipelines (nice to have)

This is a fully remote opportunity open to candidates based in Canada.

Hourly compensation for core projects typically ranges between USD $40 and $70 per hour
. Final rates are determined based on experience, skills evaluation, location, project scope, and overall requirements

• Fully remote
  , flexible schedule (
  30–40 hrs/week is highly preferred
  )
• Work that genuinely values hands-on, at-scale experience
• Ideal for Dev Ops engineers exploring high-impact side work or frontier AI exposure (Short Term Project / Full Time Projects)
• We keep the bar high and the teams small
• Prior AI Training experience is NOT mandatory for this freelancing role.

Apply Now

If you’ve operated systems at scale and want flexible work while shaping next-gen AI, we’d love to hear from you.