DevOps Developer

Location:
Buffalo, NY / Remote

We believe in a world where data analytics is not a privilege but a universal right and simple enough so anyone use it to drive the profitability of their businesses to transform the world. With industries like accounting and manufacturing facing massive workforce disruptions (i.e., 75% of the workforce retiring in the next 10 years), we’re positioned to step in and change how data drives decisions.

HeronAI (MIT / FinTech, SaaS) empowers mid-sized firms to streamline strategic growth and month-end advisory reporting. Using proprietary algorithms to help mid-sized companies connect all their disparate data into one place, analyze it, create visual dashboards, and action plans to drive strategic decision-making. Our goal is to help reduce analysis and reporting time from 4-12 weeks to under 5 minutes

Our goal not to be just a tool, but to reshape how data drives decisions for over 10 million people in the next 10 years.

Learn more about our Mission and Vision and see HeronAI in the media

As a DevOps Developer at HeronAI, you’ll play a pivotal role in achieving this vision. You won’t just be building infrastructure; you’ll be crafting the foundation for the easiest-to-use analytics platform ever created. This isn’t about chasing bleeding-edge technologies; it’s about taking proven tools and reshaping them to deliver instant value and unparalleled ease of use to our customers.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and manage infrastructure and deployment pipelines that deliver unmatched speed and reliability for our clients.
  • Create a seamless experience where data integration is instant and customers can generate actionable insights without friction.
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support rapid feature releases with robust testing and security measures.
  • Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness, using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure infrastructure aligns with our customer-first methodology and the fastest possible user experience.
  • Maintain a focus on automation, enabling us to continually scale and adapt to customer needs.
  • Enhance system monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.
  • Drive efforts to achieve SOC 2 compliance, ensuring security protocols are robust and auditable.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure infrastructure aligns with customer-centric development.
  • Continuously optimize performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of cloud resources.
  • Develop strategies for incident response and recovery to minimize downtime.

What Makes This Role Exciting

  • As one of our first hires, you’ll have the freedom to define how we build solutions.
  • Choose the methodologies and tools that best meet our customers’ needs.
  • Work on a high-growth platform backed by MIT, Harvard, Techstars, and Forbes-recognized innovation.
  • Join us at an exciting time—we’ve grown our waitlist from 250 to 1,700 users in 10 months and recently secured $1.5M in seed funding.
  • Solve critical gaps in the data analytics market and automate workflows for industries facing major workforce transformations.

Who You Are

  • A professional with 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or systems engineering.
  • Passionate about simplifying complex systems and delivering immediate value to end-users.
  • A startup veteran who thrives in fast-paced environments and has experience in scaling up or being part of an exit.
  • Deeply customer-focused and comfortable with test-driven, hypothesis-driven development.
  • Adept at leveraging tools like AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines to optimize and scale solutions.
  • Excited by the opportunity to work on financial data platforms and the challenges of consolidating and analyzing complex datasets.

Exceptional Candidates Will Bring

  • A track record of creating transformative solutions in fintech or similar industries.
  • Insight into the current data analytics market, including its gaps and opportunities for disruption.
  • Experience working on products that prioritize speed, accessibility, and user experience.
  • A history of driving growth and innovation, preferably within a high-growth startup or scale-up.

What Good Looks Like

Q1 Targets:

  • Complete SOC 2 compliance audit, including MFA implementation and secure API handling.
  • Achieve 99.9% uptime for platform stability during testing for 1,000 concurrent users.
  • Automate CI/CD pipelines and ensure deployments are seamless with zero critical errors.

Q2 Targets:

  • Implement load balancing to support 2,000 users with dashboards loading in under 1 second.
  • Enhance database and API error handling for seamless QuickBooks and Excel API integrations.
  • Optimize AWS infrastructure for cost efficiency with 20% savings on hosting costs.

Q3 Targets:

  • Scale infrastructure to support 3,000 concurrent users with no degradation in performance.
  • Introduce enhanced logging and monitoring systems for real-time incident response.
  • Implement proactive alerts for system errors or unusual activity.

Q4 Targets:

  • Build a scalable infrastructure to support enterprise clients, including integrations for SAP and Salesforce.
  • Ensure platform scales to handle 5,000 users with <1% downtime.
  • Collaborate with security efforts to add HIPAA compliance if required.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

  • Be part of a company that’s saving businesses hours every week and driving smarter growth.
  • Work with a team of passionate innovators who see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the game.
  • Develop alongside some of the best minds in tech, with connections to MIT, Harvard, and Techstars.
  • We believe in working hard, celebrating wins, lots of ‘Fika’, and building a strong team dynamic that fosters creativity and collaboration.

Ready to Join Us?

If you’re excited about building for impact and love the idea of simplifying the complex, we’d love to hear from you.

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