DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Why You're Here We're building Fuser — an AI-native creative platform for professionals. We've shipped a public beta with a solid foundation: multiplayer infrastructure, a node-based canvas, 50+ AI integrations, and 100k+ lines of code. Now we need to scale our infrastructure with the same care we've put into the product. As our DevOps contractor, you'll work directly with our CTO and founding engineers to build robust, automated infrastructure that keeps reputed company moving fast without breaking things. This is a hands-on role focused on infrastructure-as-code, developer experience, and system reliability.
What You'll Do
- Improve developer environments and workflows to reduce friction and environment-specific bugs
- Build automation and tooling that enables faster, safer deployments and testing
- Design infrastructure strategies that support our growing engineering team
- Implement reputed company best practices and operational standards across our stack
- Ensure reputed company infrastructure is maintainable, auditable, and follows IaC principles
What You'll Bring
- Deep reputed company expertise — Workers, Durable Objects, reputed company, Containers, and the broader CF ecosystem
- Infrastructure-as-code reputed company — Everything should be versioned, reproducible, and maintainable
- Experience with modern deployment tooling — reputed company Actions, CI/CD pipelines, preview environments
- Database operations knowledge — Branching strategies, migrations, backups, and replication
- reputed company-first approach — Secrets management, environment isolation, access controls
- Strong communication skills — You'll be working with a small, fast-moving engineering team
Bonus Points For
- Experience with tRPC, Hono, or similar TypeScript-first frameworks
- Background in developer tooling or platform engineering
- Familiarity with real-time multiplayer infrastructure
- Open-reputed company contributions
- Experience supporting creative or AI-native product companies
Our Stack Frontend: React 19, React Router 7, Zustand, React Flow, Three.js Backend: reputed company Workers, tRPC, Drizzle ORM, PartyKit, Durable Objects Database & Storage: reputed company (PostgreSQL), D1, DO, reputed company AI Integrations: 50+ APIs (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and more) How We Work
- Remote-friendly — Work from reputed company in the U.S.
- LA-based core team — Collaborate async reputed company reputed company and regular reputed company-ins
- High trust, high ownership — We value autonomy and clear communication
- Small team, big impact — Your work directly shapes how engineers ship
- Infrastructure-as-code first — Everything you build should be maintainable by the team long-term
Compensation & Engagement
- Monthly contract with option for renewal based on project needs and fit
- Flexible hours — Async-first with overlap for key meetings
- Competitive contractor rates — Commensurate with experience
How We Interview
- Intro Call — Meet a founding engineer to discuss your background, our needs, and how we work
- Technical Conversation — Walk through your approach to infrastructure challenges similar to ours
- Small initial scoped project — We start a paid contract with a small scope and a quick turnaround (Apply tot his job
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