We're solving AI's hardest problem: alignment.
Encord is the data layer for Physical AI and enterprise, serving as core infrastructure for 300+ of the world's leading AI teams, including Woven by Toyota, Hitachi, Skydio, AbbVie and Dyna, Walden and Agility Robotics. From autonomous vehicles and robotics to sports and healthcare, we're solving AI's hardest problem: turning complex, real-world data into production-ready intelligent systems.
We're a team of founders, scientists, quants, researchers, and former Olympians, who’ve helped build some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley, and alumni of MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial. We’ve raised $110M from legendary technology investors, early backers of companies like Databricks, ElevenLabs and Vercel, and we’re growing at an extraordinary pace.
We're looking for exceptional people who want to help build a category-defining company, operating with high urgency and taking real ownership to help shape the future of AI.
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join our growing platform engineering team in London. You'll be embedded in the teams building and operating Encord's core infrastructure, ensuring our platform is performant, reliable, observable, and scalable. You'll drive a culture of automation, performance, and resilience through individual contributions and collaboration with multiple squads.
CI/CD & Deployment Own and continuously improve deployment pipelines; partner closely with developers to review infrastructure changes, streamline release processes, and champion DevOps best practices across the engineering group.
Infrastructure & Cloud Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS; manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, and storage at petabyte scale, with infrastructure-as-code as the default.
Automation & Tooling Drive developer productivity by building, guiding, and reviewing automation and internal tooling efforts across the engineering group; eliminate manual toil wherever it exists.
Performance & Capacity Profile and optimise services handling large-scale data pipelines; perform capacity planning for storage and compute-intensive workloads. Work with squads to establish performance benchmarks and expectations.
Reliability & Availability Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services; build alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes; lead postmortems with a blameless culture.
Observability Instrument services with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Dashboards or similar); build infrastructure, define best practices, and work with each squad to ensure every service is observable before it goes to production.
4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment.
Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale.
Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management.
Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed and/or high performance systems.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads in cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS).
Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies.
Experience with observability fundamentals metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
We are technology agnostic at Encord and not looking for experience across all of these — as long as you're open to learning, please apply.
Backend: Python
Frontend: TypeScript and React
Deployment: Kubernetes
Infrastructure: GCP
Machine learning: PyTorch, CUDA, Ray
Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
Strong in-person culture: 4 days/week
Daily team lunches & dinners
Annual learning & development budget
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
US employees: 18 paid vacation days plus US public holidays
UK employees: 25 paid vacation days plus UK public holidays
Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
Bi-annual company offsites in & monthly socials
High agency
You see something broken, you fix it or find the person who can. We celebrate the people who solve 90% of a problem before anyone asks.
Build with care & urgency
We bear-hug the customer. Former founders and people from fast-moving, high-stakes environments thrive here.
Self-aware & hungry
We stay warm, self-aware, and genuinely hungry. We elevate our peers, and ego doesn't last long.
Invent in real time
We move toward the ambiguity. We’re pragmatic, resourceful, energized by the fact that there's no playbook.
If you're looking to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who push you to be better, we'd love to meet you.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi and configuration management
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed or high-performance systems
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in GCP and/or AWS cloud environments
- Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies
- Experience with observability fundamentals, including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
What We Do
Encord is the data layer for physical AI. We're how the world's most ambitious AI teams turn messy, multimodal data into production systems - from humanoid robots to autonomous vehicles to smart infrastructure. 300+ teams including Toyota, Skydio, and Maxar rely on Encord to curate, manage, and align the data their models actually need. $110M raised. San Francisco, New York, and London.
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