Ideogram is on a mission to make professional-quality design accessible to everyone. We’re building an AI-native application that helps creative individuals and teams produce high-quality content faster and at a lower cost. We are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI, with a focus on creativity and a high standard for trust and safety. Our headquarters is in downtown Toronto, and we have a growing presence in NYC. Read our Ideogram 3.0 and Canvas blog posts, and try our product at ideogram.ai to get a glimpse of what we're building.
About The Role
The DevOps Lead will manage Ideogram's cloud infrastructure for product, ML training, and ML inference. This includes a tight orchestration of resources on GCP and Cloudflare, in particular the design of Ideogram's networking infrastructure to maximize security.
What We’re Looking For
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Expertise with Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and management of ML accelerator fleets
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Expertise in cloud security and organization security, and identity and access management
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Expertise with Google Cloud Platform
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Python, shell scripting
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Strong infrastructure and security fundamentals
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Experience in maintaining scalable and reliable systems (e.g., experience with PubSub, service accounts, identity management & RBAC and CI/CD).
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Experience with setting up and maintaining observability for deployed applications
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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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Self-starter - able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance
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Experience communicating complex technical issues to technical and non technical team members
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Excitement about generative AI technology and its impact on the creative economy.
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Nice to Have
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Managing web service infrastructure (e.g. load balancers, reverse proxies, CDNs)
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Monitoring and improving cloud resource usage and costs
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Management of training and inference workloads
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Management of CI infrastructure for internal development
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Have prior experience working closely with technical teams in creating and deploying infrastructure.
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Passion for building robust and secure systems
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Possess a track record of helping companies properly manage their infrastructure through IaC
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Experience with Helm and Kustomize
Founding Team
Our founding team consists of world-renowned AI experts including Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, and Chitwan Saharia. This team has previously led transformative AI projects at Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. Our fundamental work in AI includes: Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, Denoising Diffusion Models, which is the foundation of the recent generative media transformation.
Company Culture
We're a single flat team that transcends engineering, research, product, and operation roles. Everyone is willing to do whatever is necessary to make our company and customers successful. We believe that a small, dedicated team with a collaborative culture can move faster and build better and more coherent products than large hierarchical organizations. At Ideogram, we provide mentorship and support to help our employees grow with the company and achieve their ambitious career goals.
Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about the people.
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What We Do
Ideogram (pronounced eye-diogram) is on a mission to help people become more creative through generative AI. We are building state-of-the-art generative media tools that will make creative expression more accessible and fun. We're hiring: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ideogram
