Senior DevOps Engineer

About EliseAI

EliseAI develops cutting-edge conversational AI technology for industries fundamental to our lives: housing and healthcare. Everything is built on the foundation of health and home. Broken systems or ineffective processes in these domains have a disproportionate impact on our quality of life and society’s overall wellbeing. Conversely, any solution or technology that solves problems in these areas will have an impact that ripples far beyond them.

That’s the only kind of impact we are interested in having at EliseAI. If you get excited by the thought of working really hard on these kinds of problems, then EliseAI is the right place for you.

About The Role

As the first DevOps Engineer at EliseAI, you will own the systems and processes that support reliable software deployment across multiple environments. You’ll be responsible for managing configuration, maintaining deployment workflows, and ensuring operational consistency as our infrastructure scales. This role requires close collaboration across engineering, product, and platform teams to support end-to-end delivery—from development through production. You’ll help build the foundation for how we deploy, monitor, and scale our systems as the company continues to grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure using AWS and modern DevOps practices

• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to ensure high availability

• Automate deployment pipelines and manage CI/CD workflows

• Collaborate with engineers to identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues

• Improve system security and auditability across environments

• Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies to enhance operations

• Attract top-tier talent to join our driven team

Requirements

• 3+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience, preferably at a high-growth startup

• Strong AWS experience, including services like EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, and IAM

• Proficiency in scripting languages (preferably Python) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to debug and optimize complex systems

• Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or similar

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of large initiatives from day one

• Willingness to work in person from our NYC office 4-5 days a week

Why Join

Growth and impact. It’s not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn!) startup that’s scaling. That means that instead of following a playbook, you’ll be writing it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. You’ll learn what works when you succeed and what doesn’t when you fail. Either way, the rest of the team will be here to support you.

Benefits

• Equity in the company in the form of stock options

• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%

• Fully paid parental leave

• Commuter benefits

• 401k benefits

• Monthly fitness stipend

• A collaborative in-office environment with an open floor plan, fully stocked kitchen, and company-paid lunch.

• Fun company social events through our Elise and the City program

• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays

• We'll cover relocation packages and make the move exciting, not painful!

Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $210,000 - $260,000. EliseAI offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits & perks package. Exact compensation is determined based on a number of factors including experience, skill level, location and qualifications which are assessed during the interview process. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided by our Recruiting Team during the hiring process.

EliseAI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note that employment with EliseAI is on an "at-will" basis, which means that either the employee or the company may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]