Senior DevOps Engineer | SRE | Platform Engineer

We are looking for diverse perspectives. A24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all kinds of candidates.

A24 Labs is a technology startup within A24 Films. Our team is lean, and our people are top notch. As a DevOps engineer at A24 Labs, you won’t just be wiring up pipelines or keeping the lights on, blindly following runbooks, disconnected from the impact of your work. You’ll care deeply about the systems you build and the teams who rely on them. You’ll exercise autonomy and sound judgment while collaborating closely with stakeholders and engineers, sharing knowledge, and mentoring others to deliver resilient, scalable, secure infrastructure together.

Compensation: $125k - $200k, plus equity and a competitive benefits package (*see more below).

Location: Most of the labs team works from our New York office so we're currently focused on local candidates. That said, remote unicorns (who check most of the boxes below) are welcome to apply.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS
• ECS management, scaling, and optimization
• CloudFormation (Copilot a plus)
• Cloudfront, edge caching, and WAF management
• CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
• Docker build optimization, production/development parity
• DevOps automation and shell scripting
• Observability, monitoring, and alerting (CloudWatch a must, HoneyBadger a plus)
• Postgres (RDS, performance tuning, connection management, replication)
• Production / staging parity, feature-branch deployments, and consistent build pipelines
• Asynchronous task processing (Celery, SQS, MQ)

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Python and/or Django experience
• Celery and background job systems
• Frontend build tooling (e.g. Vite)
• AWS Copilot experience

Example Projects You'd Work On

• Improving CI/CD speed, reliability, and consistency across services
• Standardizing and auditing Docker images and build pipelines
• Designing and refining ECS autoscaling alarms
• Improving Postgres performance, connection pooling, and query efficiency
• Implementing and refining feature-branch deploy workflows
• Improving CloudFront and edge caching strategies
• Strengthening production / staging parity across environments
• Expanding observability and alerting coverage
• Improving PII scrubbing and data-handling safeguards

To apply, please send me a personal (non-AI assisted), informal email explaining why you're interested, which boxes you check (and which you don't), where you're located (NYC, in person interviews strongly preferred)and attach your CV or LinkedIn. Required subject line: "builtin devops".

*Our target salary range for this role is between $125,000 to $200,000. We do not use formal job titles internally and similarly named positions may have different compensation levels. Actual starting salary within the range will depend on various considerations, including: work experience, skills, specializations, and training. This role is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, including both cash and equity components, competitive healthcare, as well as other employee benefits.