Systems Engineer / DevOps
- Salary
- $120,000 - $180,000
- Level
- Junior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 14 March 2026.
About the role
About Hive
Hive's standard text
Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world's largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software applications powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, enabling breakthrough use cases across industries.
Together, Hive’s solutions are transforming content moderation, brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.
Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. We have over 250 employees globally in our San Francisco, Seattle, and Delhi offices. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the future of AI!
DevOps and Systems Team
Our unique machine learning needs led us to open our own data centers, with an emphasis on GPU resources. Even with these data centers, we maintain a hybrid infrastructure into AWS to power some parts of our consumer apps. As we continue to commercialize our machine learning models, we also need to grow our DevOps and Systems team to maintain the reliability of a SaaS offering for our customers.
Our ideal candidate is someone who is able to thrive in an unstructured environment and takes automation seriously. You believe there is no task that can’t be automated and no server scale too large. You take pride in ensuring developers can deploy their servers without worrying about downtime.
Responsibilities
- Automate manual operational processes
- Improve workflows of developer, data, and machine learning teams
- Manage integration and deployment tooling
- Create, maintain, monitor, secure and audit infrastructure
- Manage a diverse array of technology platforms, following best practices and procedures
- Participate in on-call rotation and root cause analysis
- Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority
Requirements
- Minimum 1 - 2 years of previous experience in development, operations, IT, or a related field
- Comfortable working on Linux infrastructures (Debian) via the CLIAble to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently independently
- Able to physically lift equipment at least 30 pounds
- Can communicate effectively across teams and management levels
- Degree in computer science, or similar, is an added plus!
Technology Stack
- Operating Systems - Linux/Debian Family/Ubuntu
- Configuration Management - Chef/Ansible/Puppet/Salt
- Containerization - Docker
- Container Orchestrators - Mesosphere/Kubernetes
- Scripting Languages - Python/Ruby/Node/Bash
- CI/CD Tools - Jenkins
- Network hardware - Arista/Cisco/Fortinet
- Hardware - HP/SuperMicro
- Storage - Ceph, S3
- Database - Scylla, Postgres, Pivotal GreenPlum
- Message Brokers: RabbitMQ
- Logging/Search - ELK Stack
- AWS: VPC/EC2/IAM/S3
- Networking: TCP / IP, ICMP, SSH, DNS, HTTP, SSL / TLS, Storage systems, RAID, distributed file systems, NFS / iSCSI / CIFS
Who We Are
Hive's standard text
We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Hive, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.
Thank you for your interest in Hive and we hope to meet you soon!
The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $120,000 - $180,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Ansible · Cisco · IAM · Kibana · PostgreSQL · Puppet · RabbitMQ · Ruby
Rare in Hive's other 41 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
AWS · CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Python
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
78% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Hive's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Hive's other open postings on this site.
The team: Product & Engineering
This role is one of 35 open in Product & Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (19 of 35), OWASP (17 of 35), Node.js (14 of 35), JavaScript (13 of 35), Python (13 of 35), Deep Learning (10 of 35), Bash (9 of 35)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Associate Product Manager, Hive Models posted Jul 23
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer posted Feb 13
- Product Manager, AutoML posted Feb 27
- Product Manager, Consumer Applications posted Feb 27
- Data Center Technician posted Feb 9
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 21
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 21
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 21
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 21
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Apr 21
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 21
- Senior Software Engineer - Frontend posted Apr 21
- Security Engineer posted Apr 21
- Machine Learning Manager posted Apr 21
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 21
- Software Engineer - Frontend posted Apr 21
- Engineering Manager posted Apr 21
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Apr 20
- Machine Learning Manager posted Jan 24
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Dec 10
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer posted Dec 10
- Senior Software Engineer - Frontend posted Nov 23
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Nov 23
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Nov 23
- Product Manager, Hive Models posted Jun 22
- Security Engineer posted May 6
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Jan 15
- Product Manager, Hive Data posted Jan 15
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Jan 15
- Software Engineer - Frontend posted Jan 15
- Engineering Manager posted Jan 15
- Business Analyst, Hive Models posted Jan 15
- UI / UX Designer posted Nov 13
- Frontend Engineer posted Nov 13
From the team and dates on Hive's own job board.
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