DevOps Engineer

Join our mission of pathogen-proofing indoor environments and ensuring health, efficiency, and biosecurity across all buildings.

Safe Traces is a dual use technology company in the San Francisco Bay Area with a ground-breaking platform for predicting, detecting, and preventing harmful pathogen exposures in indoor environments. Developed with National Institutes of Health support, our award-winning technology integrates hardware, software, and consumables and has been used across military and civilian building portfolios including Amazon, the Mayo Clinic, and the Department of Defense to stop infectious, contamination, and bioterror events before they occur.

Safe Traces is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer responsible for designing and owning the AWS infrastructure of our cloud-native platform, automate deployments, and ensure secure, scalable integrations across multiple systems. This role is hands‑on and will directly shape the core technical foundation of our solutions. The fast‑moving nature of the work requires excellent attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication skills, the ability to prioritize different projects and tasks, and work independently.

This is an on‑site position in Pleasanton, CA with some ability to work remotely.

• Stand up core AWS infrastructure: databases (RDS/Dynamo
  
  DB), S3 storage buckets, and data pipelines; API Gateway for both external and internal APIs; compute environments (e.g. Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2)
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Build CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) for deploying services, ML models, web/mobile apps
• Containerize and deploy models (Energy, Occupancy, Traffic) with Docker/Kubernetes
• Implement role‑based IAM policies, VPC networking, and encryption for data security
• Set up monitoring and logging (Cloud Watch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) with alerting in production
• Enable secure integration with 3rd‑party systems, including BMS (Building Management Systems)
• Document infrastructure, deployment processes, and incident response runbooks

• 4+ years in a Dev Ops / Cloud Infrastructure role
• Deep expertise in AWS core services: S3, RDS/Dynamo
  
  DB, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Cloud Watch, IAM
• Experience deploying containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
• Solid scripting experience (Python, Bash, Go a plus)
• Strong grasp of networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, routing)
• Knowledge of modern API security practices (OAuth2, JWT, throttling, WAF)
• Bonus:
  Experience with IoT/embedded integrations or building secure data platforms for sensors