DevOps Lead

VYBS is the fastest-growing loyalty platform in mobile gaming, a $100B+ market with over 3 billion players. Millions of players use our app to discover games and get rewarded for playing them, and hundreds of game studios use us to reach their most valuable players.

The role. You'll be our first dedicated infrastructure hire, reporting directly to the CTO. You'll own the infrastructure that runs VYBS, including its reliability, security and cost. You'll set the standards, build the platform, and make it easy for engineers and their AI agents to ship to production safely. As we grow, you'll build and lead the DevOps team. You won't do it all at once: we'll set priorities together and build it step by step.

Why this is a great DevOps role

• Force multiplier for the team. We move fast with a small team, so the automation and agentic workflows you build multiply what every engineer can do. That gives you a large impact on the business.
• Infrastructure quality is business-critical. In B2C at our scale, a production incident means lost revenue within minutes. That makes this role central to the company: the reliability standards you set protect the business every day.
• Scale makes cost an engineering problem. Millions of players generate data volumes that can make costs spike in unexpected places. Finding and fixing those hotspots means real engineering work, and every win shows up directly in our margins.
• AI-native engineering. Agents write much of our code. You'll make the platform one they can deploy to safely, with clear environments, least-privilege roles and approval gates.
• Ownership. Small, senior R&D team with light process, so decisions happen in days, not quarters. You'll work directly with backend, data, ML and mobile.
• Build the team from day one. You'll shape how infrastructure work is done at VYBS and grow the team that does it.

What you'll do

• Platform: Shape the platform across AWS, GCP and Snowflake so that shipping to production is fast, safe and boring, for engineers and AI agents alike. Every change should go through CI/CD with clear environments, reviews and approvals.
• SRE: Set the reliability bar for R&D and build the culture around it. Define SLOs and error budgets, and build on-call, incident management and observability so problems get caught before players notice. Design for failure with multi-AZ, tested restores and zero-downtime deploys.
• SecOps: Make security part of how we build, not a checkpoint at the end. Secure access, secrets, network and data by default, and turn every finding into a guardrail so it can't happen again.
• FinOps: Make cost something every engineer can see and act on. Find where scale is burning money, fix it at the source, and put guardrails in place so it stays fixed.
• AIOps: Own the infrastructure behind our AI agents and LLM workloads, including access, observability and cost.
• Leadership: Own the DevOps roadmap with the CTO. Hire, mentor and lead DevOps engineers as the team grows, and set the practices they work by.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering, including owning infrastructure end to end.
• Deep experience running high-scale, highly available production systems on AWS.
• Experience building agentic workflows and AI-driven automation.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the desire to build and grow a team while staying hands-on.
• Strong advantage: previous experience as the first DevOps engineer at a startup.
• Advantage: experience running AI agents or LLM workloads in production.