Obvious·2 days ago
We're building an AI‑native workspace—an operating system for work that puts co‑intelligence at the center. Start with data or an idea, describe your goal, and Obvious goes to work: running analysis, searching the web, writing documents, generating tables, designing presentations, visualizing data, building dashboards, and more.
As Steve Jobs imagined the personal computer as a bicycle for the mind, Obvious imagines AI as a garden for the mind. Less mechanical acceleration. More organic cultivation.
What if, instead of just vibe coding, you could vibe‑work? What if getting from idea to done wasn't so opaque, stubborn, and high‑latency?
What if there was a way to consistently deliver work that feels like it came from the best version of you on your best day?
That's Obvious.
We need someone who can own the infrastructure that makes every Obvious engineer (and agent) more productive. We want someone to build exceptional build and deploy systems that make rolling back and forth trivial.
We want you to treat infrastructure as a product for builders. We want you to build resilient systems that can handle the unique challenges of working with AI at scale and can thrive under load.
We are small and talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class builders, former founders, and leaders from companies like Netflix, Google, Uber, Meta, Dropbox, Instacart, Shopify, Apple, Datadog and Twitter (X). If you're excited to build infrastructure that enables others to do their best work, join us.
Make deployments boring (in the best way possible)
Own CI/CD pipelines: optimize build times, improve caching, reduce flakiness
Evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) deployment strategy for reliability and speed
Manage container builds and lambdas
Extend our telemetry with better instrumentation, smarter sampling, and actionable dashboards
Build alerting that catches actual problems and ignores noise
Make the feedback loop from code to production as fast as possible
Improve preview environments, local dev tooling, and testing infrastructure
Eliminate toil and repetitive work through thoughtful automation
Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on infrastructure at scale
A proven record of exceptional achievements and impact
Willingness to work hard, move fast and grow quickly in a rapidly changing environment
An exceptional ability to learn
Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production (we run EKS)
Strong Terraform skills—you've managed real infrastructure as code
Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dash0, Braintrust, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging
PostgreSQL performance tuning, connection pooling, read replicas
AWS services: Lambda (event-driven processing, background jobs, API backends), S3, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch
You've been on-call and you've built systems that made on-call better
You think like a product manager for internal tools, where the product is developer productivity
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
SRE practices: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, chaos engineering
Cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
You love the talk "Simple Made Easy"
You don't think developer experience is a first-class concern
You're uncomfortable with the pace and changing priorities of a startup environment
You require highly structured requirements and aren't comfortable with ambiguity
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