# Senior Devops Engineer at Placer.ai

- Company: Placer.ai
- What the company does: Make smarter real estate decisions and close more deals with Placer.ai's location intelligence and foot traffic insights. Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.placer.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://placer.ai/company/we-are-hiring/?gh_jid=7660276003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/placer-ai-senior-devops-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to own the infrastructure behind one of the world's largest location analytics platforms - from CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments to developer tooling and observability. This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role at the intersection of scale, reliability, and engineering velocity. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in a Production Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering role at a SaaS product company
- 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in production - not just deployment, but operating and scaling it
- 2+ years with IaC tools - Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent at real scale
- Experience managing production databases and queues - PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language - Python, Go, or Ruby
- Strong monitoring and alerting fundamentals - you build the systems that catch problems before users do

Tags: R&D