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Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal

Trase · Seattle, WA or McLean, VA (Preferred) or Remote (USA) · Remote

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About Trase

Trase builds governed AI agents for healthcare, government, and enterprise — auditable, secure, and deployed where your data already lives. Backed by Virginia Venture Partners.

About the role

As a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer at Trase, you will build, deploy, and operate the infrastructure supporting Red Cell Federal and Red Cell Partners’ incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP support team, with a strong focus on federal, government, and national security programs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production systems
  • Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations
  • Strong experience with Helm and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Pulumi, including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change review
  • Hands-on infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services
  • Experience deploying and operating software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments, including adapting cloud-native products for these deployment models
More about this role

Trase is the operating system for high-stakes environments, providing end-to-end solutions for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI within industries where security, governance, and data sovereignty are non-negotiable.

Our HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant platform bridges the “last mile” of AI adoption, empowering sectors like healthcare and national security to run trustworthy, predictable AI agents across any model or environment—whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at the edge—with unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and fully immutable audit trails.

Trase’s suite of products includes Origin, its agentic operating system; Leagues, its marketplace for specialized, configurable, ready-to-deploy agents; and Arena, where developers build, evaluate, and package the agents that run on Origin. The company has repeatedly topped Hugging Face’s GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, placing it firmly at the forefront of AI-agent innovation.

As a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer at Trase, you will build, deploy, and operate the infrastructure supporting Red Cell Federal and Red Cell Partners’ incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP...

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