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title: 'Infrastructure Engineer, Agentic DevSecOps at Distyl AI'
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# Infrastructure Engineer, Agentic DevSecOps at Distyl AI

- **Company:** Distyl AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/distyl/6b13df85-e705-4a69-9340-0e83c54e78c5

## Job description

## About Distyl AI

Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.

We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys.

Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s.

## What We Are Looking For

We're hiring a Infrastructure Engineer to own how Distyl engineers build, test, secure, and release software. Our independently versioned services span multiple repositories and deploy into customer environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with different security, connectivity, and upgrade constraints.

This is a hands-on role with scope matched to your experience, from owning complex delivery systems to setting technical direction across teams. You'll build shared delivery systems and coding-agent workflows that make releases reliable, failures actionable, and engineers more productive. Your systems will shape how every Distyl engineer ships.

## Key Responsibilities

- Technical ownership. Set direction and priorities for build, test, release, and coding-agent infrastructure. Choose tools and standards with engineering partners, and own implementation, adoption, and operation across teams
- Build systems and repository standards. Standardize repository conventions and reusable build/test workflows. Make builds reproducible and efficient through explicit dependencies, consistent tooling, and effective caching
- Release engineering. Build once and promote versioned bundles of immutable artifacts through release stages, with source traceability and test and security gates. Partner with Platform, Runtime, and Customer Delivery on integration and compatibility testing, configuration and schema changes, and recovery. Support customer-registry distribution and offline packaging where required
- Agent-enabled engineering. Equip engineers with reusable coding-agent tools to diagnose failures, propose fixes, and handle routine work. Include tests, scoped permissions, failure handling, and independent output validation; measure quality and time saved
- Software supply-chain security. Implement artifact signing and provenance, software bills of materials (SBOMs), isolated build runners, scoped CI credentials, and vulnerability gates. Integrate dependency and container remediation into engineering workflows
- Developer experience. Understand engineers' workflows and remove friction with self-service tools, documentation, and diagnostics that distinguish code failures from tooling issues. Use developer feedback to guide incremental migrations, earn adoption, and reduce manual work
- Engineering productivity and alerting. Track build/test latency, pipeline reliability, flaky-test rates, release lead time, and tooling adoption. Use these signals and developer feedback to reduce flaky tests and bottlenecks. Set service-level objectives and route actionable alerts to owners

## Who You Are

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developer productivity, SRE, or related infrastructure engineering roles
- Experience enabling engineers to use coding agents through reusable tools, workflows, and guidance, with independent validation and scoped access
- Experience owning production build, test, and release infrastructure across services and teams, including versioned release bundles and compatibility testing
- Hands-on experience with build systems, dependency management, reproducibility, performance diagnosis, and caching
- Strong Python skills for building and debugging backend services and maintainable automation. Comfortable navigating unfamiliar code, including JavaScript frontends
- Strong Linux fundamentals and experience building and maintaining secure container images. Working knowledge of Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and cloud deployment
- Hands-on experience implementing software supply-chain controls. Demonstrated security judgment across permissions, credentials, dependencies, artifacts, and remediation
- Experience building developer platforms, automated remediation, or reusable agent tooling adopted by other engineers
- A record of improving build/test performance, release reliability, and tooling adoption using metrics and developer feedback
- Experience independently leading complex projects and migrations. A record of setting technical direction and driving adoption across teams is especially valued. You defend technical choices with evidence and adapt to changing constraints
- Preferred: Building and operating testing infrastructure in a microservices environment
- Preferred: Distributing release artifacts to customer registries or restricted environments, including offline packaging

## What We Offer

- The base salary range for this role is $200,000-$250,000, depending on experience, location, and level. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for meaningful equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible time off
- Retirement and financial planning benefits, including access to pre-tax HSA, FSA, and commuter accounts, 401(k), and financial coaching resources
- Comprehensive wellness benefits, including physical fitness, mental well-being, and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
- Complimentary in-office lunches and snacks provided
- Access to state-of-the-art AI models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real-world business problems
- Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises
- A mission-driven, fast-moving culture that values curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence

Distyl has offices in San Francisco and New York. This role follows a hybrid collaboration model with 3+ days per week (Tuesday–Thursday) in‑office.

#LI-Hybrid

We believe diverse perspectives make our work stronger and more impactful. We are an equal opportunity employer and evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

## About Distyl AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Distyl AI partners with world-class institutions to rearchitect their operational systems for abundant intelligence, deploying AI-native workflows at production scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Arjun Prakash (Co-Founder, CEO) and Derek Ho (Co-Founder, COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-Native Operations / Enterprise AI
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises and institutions in regulated industries (Fortune 500 companies), specifically financial services, healthcare, telecom, insurance, manufacturing, and retail.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To help world institutions rearchitect their systems for abundant intelligence without sacrificing human agency and control.

## Products & Services
- **Distillery (Proprietary Platform)**: An agentic infrastructure platform that curates context from across the enterprise, enabling composable routines, policy-aware execution, and built-in auditability. It integrates with existing enterprise systems to allow for autonomous workflows.
- **Distyl Scans**: A service offering that provides enterprises with an “AI Readiness” score and a roadmap for adopting AI-driven technologies by surveying KPIs, business processes, data landscape, and tech stack.
- **AI-Native Workflows**: Custom, full-stack solutions deployed for specific industries, including intelligent underwriting, claims processing, prior authorization automation, and contact center intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**:
    - **Total Funding**: $202 million (across 3 rounds: Seed, Series A, Series B).
    - **Annual Revenue**: $1.0 million (per LinkedIn).
    - **Decisions Processed**: Over 1 billion decisions processed annually at production scale.
    - **Deployments**: 50+ enterprise deployments across Fortune 500 companies.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (led Series A & B), Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, OpenAI, Microsoft.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Massive Headcount Growth**: 117 employees (+101.3% YoY, +77 people) as of recent data.
    - **Latest Funding**: Raised a $175 million Series B in October 2025.
    - **Industry Reach**: Active production deployments across 12 industries.
    - **Talent Pipeline**: Strong hiring from top-tier companies like Palantir, McKinsey, Amazon, and Microsoft.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcome Ownership**: Unlike a pure software vendor or consultancy, Distyl takes "Relentless Outcome Ownership," deploying solutions and managing them in production to ensure EBITDA impact within 6 months.
- **Full-Stack AI**: They combine strategy, research, and engineering to build and deploy production-grade systems, not just demos or proofs-of-concept.
- **Built for Regulated Industries**: Their platform is designed with dynamic guardrails and auditability, making them a trusted partner for sectors like healthcare and finance where compliance is non-negotiable.
- **Strong Backing**: Backed by a consortium of top-tier venture capital firms and strategic investors like OpenAI and Microsoft, providing deep resources and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Defining the AI-Native Enterprise**: Distyl is focused on building the systems, workflows, and operational models that will define how large enterprises operate in the age of AI.
- **Agentic Systems at Scale**: Their current priority is deploying agentic systems that are practical, auditable, and safe, moving beyond simple automation to complex decision-making.
- **Industry Expansion**: With deployments in 12 industries, they are aggressively expanding their footprint in financial services, healthcare, and telecom, while also targeting supply chain and insurance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Work Style**: Described as fast-paced and outcome-oriented. The company values "relentless curiosity," direct feedback ("no ego-stroking"), and a bias for shipping real solutions. The work is described as defining the future of enterprise AI.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: For all engineering roles and most other roles, the company requires in-office collaboration **3 days a week** in either San Francisco or New York City. They also have a London office.
- **Benefits & Perks**:
    - **Health & Wellness**: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents. 8 weeks of parental leave. Flexible PTO.
    - **Compensation**: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Retirement plans. Life and disability insurance.
    - **Additional**: Relocation support for moves over 100 miles. Daily meals and snacks in-office. Commuter benefits.
- **Engineering & Research Focus**: The interview process is practical, featuring collaborative live coding and system design discussions, and the use of AI is encouraged during interviews. They hire people who "make AI work better than anyone else."

## Sources
1. [distyl.ai](https://www.distyl.ai/)
2. [distyl.ai - About](https://www.distyl.ai/about)
3. [distyl.ai - Careers](https://www.distyl.ai/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - Distyl AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/distylai)
5. [CB Insights - Distyl](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/distyl-ai)

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