DevOps Engineer

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28 Locations
Remote
100K-130K
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Conversational AI
Smartcat is on a mission to become the wall-to-wall Language AI platform.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for ensuring operational integrity of production and testing environments, modernizing deployment processes, and enhancing development experiences through CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code implementation.
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About Smartcat

Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises.

We’re on the frontier of an entirely new category: Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid workforces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren’t generic copilots. They’re fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one.

Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you're launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale.

Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with 130% year-over-year growth, we’re scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us.

Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN OUR TEAM: 

Joining Smartcat's DevOps team means working at the heart of a fast-growing global SaaS company, where your work directly impacts product reliability and user experience. You'll be part of a collaborative environment that values ownership and innovation. With a modern tech stack and a culture of continuous improvement, you'll have the opportunity to shape infrastructure and grow together with Smartcat.

MISSION: 
  • Ensure Production and Testing environments are consistently operational.
  • Support and enhance Development Experience.
  • Modernize, economize, and make our deployment resilient, maintenance-friendly, and continuously monitored.
OUTCOMES:
  • Increase coverage of existing Production infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code by 25%.
  • Implement base Docker images updates automation.
  • Implement automation for multi-environment Nginx configuration delivery.
HOW YOU’LL RAMP: By Day 30
  • Understand SDLC for Smartcat’s applications.
  • Get familiar with DevOps tools and processes.
  • Confidently navigate through Platform Infrastructure.
Day 60
  • Join the process of being on duty in a team, be able to analyze problems, use observability / monitoring tools and handle investigations.
  • Support Production releases and address blockers of CI/CD process.
Day 90
  • Complete two quarter deliverable in alignment with Outcomes.
WHAT YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED:
  • Proven experience in building, managing, and troubleshooting distributed infrastructure and network systems across hybrid or cloud-native environments.
  • Hands-on experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines with support for multiple environments. Preferred tools: GitLab CI. Alternatives: Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, ArgoCD.
  • Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies. Preferred stack: Kubernetes with Helm and Docker. Alternatives: OpenShift, Nomad, containerd.
  • Experience with configuration management tools. Preferred: Ansible. Alternatives: Chef, Puppet, SaltStack.
  • Understanding and practical use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. Preferred: Terraform. Alternatives: Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, Crossplane.
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating scalable cloud infrastructure. Preferred cloud platform: AWS. Alternatives: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
  • Proficient in Linux/Unix system administration, including shell scripting and performance tuning.
  • Experience in deploying and maintaining monitoring and observability systems. Preferred stack: VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, ELK Stack. Alternatives: Prometheus, Loki, Zabbix, Datadog.
  • Practical experience in incident management and postmortem analysis in high-availability, production-grade environments.
  • Familiarity with document-oriented databases. Preferred: MongoDB. Alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase.
  • Proficient in written and spoken English.
  • Ability to excel in a high-paced, startup-like environment with a strong sense of urgency, focus, and persistence.
  • High integrity, full ownership of responsibilities, and a proactive mindset toward solving problems.
Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far
  • Fully remote team
    We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon.
  • Innovating a $100 Billion industry
    Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
  • High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations
    You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
  • Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
    We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here. 
  • Smartcat Culture: Where Diversity Meets High Performance
    At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.

         


Top Skills

Ansible
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Grafana
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Prometheus
Puppet
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
242 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for any global enterprise.

Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team.

It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library. Teams get results at 1/100 of the cost in minutes, not weeks, and never have to make the same edits twice with adaptive AI that remembers every update made by any team member.

The editing process can be scaled up in no time by accessing the largest embedded marketplace of linguists and editors, all AI-automated. More than 1,000 global companies including 20% of the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world

Why Work With Us

Smartcat is a remote-first global team of 200+ extraordinary professionals and 1,500+ corporate clients. Join us as we continue turning the language industry on its head with our all-in-one AI translation + human language delivery platform.

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Smartcat Offices

Remote Workspace

Employees work remotely.

Our HQ is in Boston, United States, but our workforce is global — from San Francisco to New York, Barcelona to Istanbul, and beyond! The choice is yours at Smartcat.

Typical time on-site: None
HQBoston, Massachusetts

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