This is an hybrid role based in Burlingame, CA with the team working together in person 2 days per week.

About Galileo

Galileo is the leading platform for Gen AI evaluation and observability, with a mission to democratize building safe, reliable and robust applications in the new era of AI powered software development. Our foundation is built on pioneering the early technology behind the world's most ubiquitous AI applications including Apple's Siri and Google Speech. We firmly believe that AI developers require meticulously crafted, research-driven tools to create trustworthy and high-quality generative AI applications that will revolutionize our work and lifestyle.

Galileo addresses the complexities inherent in implementing, evaluating, and monitoring GenAI applications, optimizing the development process for both individual developers and teams by offering a comprehensive platform that spans the full AI development lifecycle. Galileo bridges critical gaps, significantly enhancing developers' ability to refine and deploy reliable and precise GenAI applications.

Since its inception, Galileo has rapidly gained traction, serving Fortune 100 banks, Fortune 50 telecom companies, as well as AI teams at prominent organizations such as Reddit and Headspace Health, among dozens of others.

Galileo has AI research at its core, with the founders coming from Google and Uber where they solved challenging AI/ML problems in the Speech, Evaluation and ML Infra domains. It is now a Series B business backed by tier 1 investors including Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and Databricks Ventures, with $68M in total funding. We are headquartered in San Francisco with locations such as New York and Bangalore, India forming our areas of future growth.

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you would be responsible for building the foundation and owning the operational and deployment backbone of Galileo's infrastructure. This includes developing and managing Galileo's customer deployment stack, managing customer deployments, being Galileo's point of contact for anything related to operations, interfacing from customers as well as 3rd party vendors.

What you'll be doing

• Own customer deployments in both cloud and air-gapped on-prem environments, including installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting
• Build Galileo's internal deployment observability infrastructure
• Manage and scale Galileo’s CI/CD deployment infrastructure
• Tune various infrastructure components - databases and services - to scale the system effectively
• Design and build internal tooling and automation using Python and/or Go
• Debug complex deployment issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application layers
• Define and implement infrastructure using Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to design scalable, secure, and reliable deployment architectures (cloud + on-prem)

What we're looking for

• At minimum a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 7+ years of experience working in production-level environments as a DevOps Engineer
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and Helm charts
• Strong experience with cloud systems such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong experience with Github and Github Actions
• Proficient programming skills in Python and/or Go
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (or equivalent)
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing)
• Experience with cloud storage systems (e.g., S3, GCS) and data lifecycle management
• Experience with maintaining databases, including performance tuning and operations
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional partners
• A startup mindset, biasing towards thoughtful action with minimal direction

Why Galileo

• Join a seasoned founding team that has previously led product and engineering teams from 0 to $100M+ in revenue and from 0 to 1B+ users globally
• We obsess over our team’s culture driven by inclusivity, empathy and curiosity