DevOps Engineer

Company:
BespokeLabs (VC-backed, founded by IIT & Ivy League leaders)

Role:
DevOps / Backend Engineer

Type:
Contract | Remote | 20–40 hrs/week | 8–16 weeks

Pay:
$80–$100/hr

About the Role

We're building a new AI training initiative that requires
real-world engineering experience
. You'll help design and document
authentic DevOps + backend scenarios
based on incidents you've handled—outages, scaling issues, secure deployments, distributed systems challenges, and more. Your experience will directly train next-generation AI systems.

What You'll Do

• Capture real DevOps + backend incidents and convert them into benchmark tasks
• Contribute to secure, scalable, Kubernetes-native architectures
• Work across CI/CD, observability, identity, infrastructure-as-code, and backend services
• Collaborate with our team to build realistic engineering workflows

Required Experience (3–5 years)

Strong hands-on experience in
DevOps and/or Backend Engineering
, including:

• Kubernetes
  ,
  Terraform
  ,
  CI/CD
  (GitLab CI preferred)
• Go / Python / Java
  ,
  Docker
  ,
  gRPC
  , Kubernetes-native services
• Experience with secure, offline/air-gapped deployments (big plus)
• Familiarity with at least
  five
  of the following:
• Identity & Access Management
• Observability (Prometheus + Grafana)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Keycloak
• GitLab CI
• Terraform OSS
• Kubernetes tools & ecosystem
• ML/Distributed pipelines (nice to have)

What We Offer

• $25–$40/hr
• Remote, flexible schedule
• 20–40 hrs/week
  for
  8–16 weeks
• Work that
  values real engineering experience
  , not runbook tasks

Apply Now

If you've operated systems at scale and want flexible work while shaping next-gen AI, we'd love to hear from you.