Job Opportunity: Senior DevOps Engineer
🚀 Senior DevOps Engineer – Civitai.com (Remote)
Full-time | Remote | Join the future of AI-generated creativity
About Us
Civitai is the leading platform for sharing and discovering AI-generated content, with a passionate community of creators and developers pushing the boundaries of generative models. We empower users to upload, explore, and remix models and images — with performance, stability, and scale at the heart of our mission.
We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build and maintain the infrastructure that supports millions of model downloads, image generations, and user interactions. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, like solving infrastructure puzzles, and enjoy enabling developers to ship with confidence — we want to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Own and evolve our infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes
- Monitor and improve system reliability, availability, and performance
- Automate provisioning, scaling, and maintenance of cloud services
- Collaborate with backend and frontend teams to ensure smooth deployments
- Manage cloud cost optimization and usage monitoring
- Handle incident response and root cause analysis
- Improve observability across our services (logs, metrics, traces)
- Keep our infrastructure secure and up-to-date with best practices
Tech Stack
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes (DigitalOcean Kubernetes, self-managed clusters), Docker
- Cloud Providers: DigitalOcean, Cloudflare
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- Backend: Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis (and more)
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Axiom, Loki
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure role
- Experience in being part of an on-call rotation
- Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production
- Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Proficiency with IaC tools like Ansible
- Ability to diagnose and resolve operational issues (with tools like Grafana)
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative environment
Nice to Have
- Passion for generative AI and creativity tools
- Experience with GPU-based infrastructures
- Previous startup experience
- Some knowledge of C#
- Familiarity with AWS / GCP
- Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python, etc.)
Why Civitai?
- Work at the forefront of AI creativity and community
- Fully remote with flexible hours
- A chance to shape a fast-growing platform
- Transparent, creator-first mission
- Competitive compensation
- ~$160k or mix of salary and equity (flexible sliding scale, up to 0.5% equity)
- Healthcare, vision, and dental available based on location
Apply Now
If you're excited about building the future of open-source AI and want to empower a global creative community, we’d love to chat.