--- title: 'DevOps Engineer at Span' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/devops-engineer-span-united-states-2hxx9wwfhn5d' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # DevOps Engineer at Span - **Company:** Span - **Location:** United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/span.app/00de323d-8842-470f-af05-91643597bb11 ## Job description ## About Span Span exists to help engineering organizations turn AI adoption into real effectiveness. As AI tools reshape how software gets built, the companies that continuously improve how their teams use AI in their day-to-day will pull ahead. We're the AI-native developer intelligence platform built for that moment. We're looking for people who want to shape how the next generation of high-performing engineering orgs operate. We're a Series A company with a small, focused team that moves fast and ships things that matter. We’re proud to be helping forward-thinking orgs like Ramp, Carvana, Intercom, and OpenTable. We're honored to be backed by dozens of founders, CTOs, and CPOs we admire from Slack, Notion, Rippling, Fivetran, Coda, Adobe, and Square, as well as funds including Alt Capital, BoxGroup, Bling, Craft, and SV Angel. ## About the Role We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to help build, scale, and maintain the infrastructure that powers Span. You'll work closely with our engineering team to ensure our systems are reliable, secure, performant, and built to scale. From automating deployments and improving CI/CD pipelines to managing cloud infrastructure and strengthening observability, you'll play a critical role in making it easier for our engineers to build and ship great software. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, eliminating operational friction, and building systems that enable engineering teams to move faster. ## What You'll Do - Own and scale our infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure to support our growing platform. - Improve CI/CD pipelines: Build and optimize automated build, testing, and deployment workflows to help engineers ship quickly and confidently. - Automate everything: Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes through infrastructure as code, scripting, and automation. - Strengthen reliability and observability: Implement and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes to ensure system health and availability. - Optimize performance and costs: Monitor infrastructure utilization, identify inefficiencies, and improve performance while managing cloud costs. - Build secure systems: Partner with engineering and security stakeholders to implement infrastructure security best practices, access controls, and compliance requirements. - Enable developer productivity: Create tools, processes, and infrastructure that reduce friction and improve the developer experience. - Support production operations: Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, investigate incidents, and implement long-term improvements. - Collaborate across engineering: Work closely with software engineers to support new features, architectural decisions, and evolving infrastructure needs. ## What We're Looking For - 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a similar infrastructure-focused role. - Strong experience managing cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, GCP, or Azure. - Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform. - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI. - Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages. - Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions. - Strong understanding of networking, Linux systems, cloud security, and infrastructure best practices. - Experience troubleshooting production systems and improving reliability. - A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment. - Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to solving technical challenges. ## Nice to Have - Experience working at an early-stage or high-growth startup. - Experience supporting SaaS platforms or data-intensive applications. - Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, workloads, or deployment patterns. - Experience with customer-managed cloud environments, including Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) architectures. - Experience with SOC 2 compliance and infrastructure security controls. - Familiarity with distributed systems, databases, and high-volume data processing. - Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling. ## About Span ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Span is an AI-native developer intelligence platform that helps engineering leaders cut coordination costs, improve productivity, and prove AI impact by connecting data across code, tickets, incidents, and AI tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $25M total funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Henry Liu, J Zac Stein ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Developer intelligence, engineering analytics, AI observability - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise engineering teams (from startups to Fortune 500) - **Mission**: “Restore the center of gravity of work, so builders can focus on building.” ## Products & Services - **Agent Trace Analysis**: Observability for agentic development – connects AI-assisted work to shipped code and enables drill-down into sessions. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) - **Developer Intelligence**: Metrics, surveys, and contextual understanding to unblock engineers and unlock productivity. Includes AI inference for work classification and developer sentiment surveys. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) - **AI Effectiveness Suite**: Track AI usage, spend, and impact by team, tool, and model. Includes AI Code Detector (span-detect-1) for chunk-level detection of AI-generated code at 95% accuracy. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) - **DevFinOps**: Fully automate R&D cost capitalization, eliminating manual spreadsheets and end-of-quarter scramble. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) - **Operational Excellence**: Playbooks, automated reports, and proactive Slack answers to improve delivery and scale high performance. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $25M (Series A, November 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, SV Angel, Bling, BoxGroup, plus dozens of founders and CTOs from Slack, Notion, Rippling, and Square. [span.app/about](https://www.span.app/about) - **Growth Signals**: 144% year-over-year headcount growth (33 employees); customers include Ramp, Vanta, Carvana, Writer, and Braze; recently launched AI Code Detector. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getspan) ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native approach**: Built from the ground up for the AI era, with agent trace analysis and line-level attribution of AI-generated code. - **Comprehensive integration**: Connects signals across code, tickets, incidents, and AI tools into a single platform. - **Enterprise security**: SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, with fine-grained RBAC, SSO/SCIM, and audit logs. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) - **Backed by top-tier investors and operators**: Strong network and validation from industry leaders. ## Strategic Focus - **AI effectiveness**: Proving and improving the ROI of AI investments in engineering. - **Scaling with AI**: Helping engineering teams maintain clarity and coordination as AI increases output. - **Automating busywork**: Replacing manual tagging, status reporting, and coordination with smart automation. ## Why Work Here - **Small teams, big impact**: The company emphasizes “making big engineering teams feel small” and values individual contribution. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) - **Remote & hybrid options**: Remote roles available in the USA and in-office/hybrid in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/span-app) - **Mission-driven culture**: Focus on reducing busywork and letting builders focus on meaningful work. [span.app/careers](https://www.span.app/careers) - **Open roles** (as of search date): Account Executive, Support Engineer, Product Engineer, Deployed Engineer, Senior Product Designer. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getspan) - **Engineering culture**: Data-driven, AI-forward, with a strong emphasis on developer experience and operational excellence. ## Sources 1. [span.app](https://www.span.app/) 2. [span.app/about](https://www.span.app/about) 3. [span.app/careers](https://www.span.app/careers) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getspan) 5. 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