About
SafeTraces is a dual use technology company in the San Francisco Bay Area with a ground-breaking platform for predicting, detecting, and preventing harmful pathogen exposures in indoor environments. Developed with National Institutes of Health support, our award-winning technology integrates hardware, software, and consumables and has been used across military and civilian building portfolios including Amazon, the Mayo Clinic, and the Department of Defense to stop infectious, contamination, and bioterror events before they occur.
About the position SafeTraces is looking for a DevOps Engineer responsible for designing and owning the AWS infrastructure of our cloud-native platform, automate deployments, and ensure secure, scalable integrations across multiple systems. This role is hands‑on and will directly shape the core technical foundation of our solutions. The fast‑moving nature of the work requires excellent attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication skills, the ability to prioritize different projects and tasks, and work independently. This is an on‑site position in Pleasanton, CA with some ability to work remotely.
What you’ll be doing
Stand up core AWS infrastructure: databases (RDS/DynamoDB), S3 storage buckets, and data pipelines; API Gateway for both external and internal APIs; compute environments (e.g. Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2)
Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or CloudFormation
Build CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) for deploying services, ML models, web/mobile apps
Containerize and deploy models (Energy, Occupancy, Traffic) with Docker/Kubernetes
Implement role‑based IAM policies, VPC networking, and encryption for data security
Set up monitoring and logging (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) with alerting in production
Enable secure integration with 3rd‑party systems, including BMS (Building Management Systems)
Document infrastructure, deployment processes, and incident response runbooks
What we’re looking for
4+ years in a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure role
Deep expertise in AWS core services: S3, RDS/DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM
Experience deploying containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
Solid scripting experience (Python, Bash, Go a plus)
Strong grasp of networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, routing)
Knowledge of modern API security practices (OAuth2, JWT, throttling, WAF)
Bonus: Experience with IoT/embedded integrations or building secure data platforms for sensors
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Languages
- English
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