[Hiring] Staff DevOps Engineer @Bluefish AI

Role Description

As a Staff DevOps Engineer , you’ll take the lead in building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers our products. You’ll be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that support a dynamic and fast-growing tech stack - from React and Next.js applications to Python data pipelines, orchestrated across a complex AWS ecosystem.

This role combines traditional DevOps responsibilities with a strong focus on Release Engineering and infrastructure governance, ensuring reliable and scalable software delivery as we grow.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers and product managers, to:

• Streamline development workflows
• Improve deployment reliability
• Ensure system resilience and observability

As the team scales rapidly, you’ll play a key role in:

• Defining infrastructure standards, best practices, and policies
• Driving information security and compliance initiatives across infrastructure and operations

This role is remote in the UK.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using best practices (e.g., IaC, security, cost optimization, monitoring)
• Define and implement infrastructure standards, policies, and governance (e.g., IAM, group permissions, access control)
• Develop, operate, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and other tools
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements
• Proactively monitor system performance, availability, and reliability
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and recovery of infrastructure using tools like Terraform
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks
• Lead initiatives around infrastructure security and compliance
• Ensure systems meet relevant security and compliance standards
• Mentor engineers on DevOps best practices

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role, ideally in a startup or product-focused environment
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, SQS, SNS etc.) and cloud-native architecture
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools and practices, ideally GitHub Actions
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) and scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and system performance monitoring
• Experience implementing and managing security controls and compliance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR, SOC 2)
• Experience supporting modern web stacks, especially applications built with React, Next.js, and Python-based services

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to join on the ground floor of a fast-moving startup building at the center of AI
• Tackle challenging and abstract problems while disrupting the $300BN legacy mar-tech industry
• Join an experienced high-performing team where you will have immediate ownership and impact
• Experience a true meritocracy with significant career growth upside as the business scales

Company Description

Bluefish believes that AI represents the next major chapter of the internet – and that consumers will increasingly use AI to consume information and media online. On this new AI internet, brands will need new tools and technologies to tell their stories to consumers online – and a new marketing ecosystem will be created around AI. Bluefish is building the platform that helps brands engage consumers on this new AI channel, with powerful enterprise tools to manage AI brand safety and engage consumers with thoughtful and personalized AI marketing experiences.

The Bluefish team is a tight-knit group of mar-tech industry veterans who previously helped build foundational ad-tech platforms now owned by Meta and Microsoft. Bluefish, the leading AI marketing platform for the Fortune 500, recently announced a $20M Series A funding round led by NEA, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. Additional investors include Crane Venture Partners, Swift Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta. We are a globally distributed team, with business operations based in New York City and engineering based in Berlin.