BackOps is the AI resolution layer for companies that make or move physical goods. It improves and executes internal processes across systems, internal teams, and external parties. Backed by Gradient Ventures.
About the role
You should want to be close to the work: read a design, review an access model, and recognize when an estimate does not add up. In this role, you will own the reliability and the security posture of everything BackOps runs, and you will build the team that carries it as the company scales. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of infrastructure and security engineers. Hire, coach, and develop the talent on it, and set the bar for who joins
- Own our infrastructure: multi-cloud and on-prem deployment, reliability and SLOs, private networking, and the cost of running all of it
- Own our security posture: identity and least-privilege access, secrets management, vulnerability management, and the controls behind SOC 2
- Build security into how engineering already works rather than bolting it on afterward. Guardrails in CI/CD, and paved roads teams take because they are the easiest path
- Set a high bar for what done means: tested code, observability, operational readiness, and runbooks someone who did not build the system can work from. AI-assisted work ships with a human owning it
- Run a planning rhythm where the team commits to an outcome and the reason it matters. We measure the risk we remove, not the tickets we close
More about this role
About BackOps
BackOps AI transforms supply-chain operations with agentic AI that automates complex workflows, freeing teams to focus on what matters most. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, we foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and measurable impact.
The Role
Infrastructure and Security owns the ground everything at BackOps runs on: multi-cloud and on-prem deployment, reliability and SLOs, private networking, least-privilege access, and SOC 2. We are seeking an engineering leader to run that team.
Our agents take real actions inside customers' live operations, and that sets the bar for this work. This team does not write reports about risk. It engineers classes of risk out of existence and ships the result as paved roads the rest of engineering takes because they are the fastest path.
You should want to be close to the work: read a design, review an access model, and recognize when an estimate does not add up.
Your Impact
In this role, you will own the reliability and the security posture of everything BackOps runs, and you will build the team that carries it as the company scales.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of infrastructure and security...
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