Principal Dev Ops Engineer

FL100, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company pioneering the use of artificial intelligence-based agents to build an integrated, end-to-end platform for AI-driven product innovation. FL100 has created intelligent and reliable AI agent-powered workflows for emergent product innovation. Emergent product innovation leads to new products with breakthrough market adoption that generate new sources of value by solving for large unmet consumer needs and creating demand that did not exist previously.

FL100 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, an innovation enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and builds companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform health care, agriculture, and sustainability. Flagship has created over 100 groundbreaking companies since 2000, including Moderna.

Position Summary: 

We are looking for an experienced and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team at FL100. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering and IT operations, a keen understanding of the agile methodology, and a drive to automate and improve our systems, processes, and deployment pipelines. We seek an experienced DevOps Engineer to design and build a high-performance proxy server that efficiently manages 100K+ requests from our AI-powered application. This system will handle request queuing, load balancing, and prioritization based on user roles, ensuring smooth and reliable execution.

In this role, you will work with Celery, Redis, and backend logic to queue and distribute requests efficiently (We are open to tech stack suggestions) while maintaining system scalability and reliability. You will collaborate closely with the development team to optimize performance and ensure seamless integration with our existing AI infrastructure.

The ideal candidate must be an independent, open-minded, goal-oriented, technologically savvy engineer with sound common sense and business thinking, coupled with excellent communication skills and comfortable working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with software developers, QA, and IT staff to manage code releases.
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines).
• Improve system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization.
• Monitor software and systems to detect issues before they impact performance.
• Manage and administer cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Conduct system tests for security, performance, and availability.
• Develop and maintain configuration management solutions.
• Document processes and implement standards to streamline operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues reported by users and stakeholders.
• Design and implement a proxy server to manage and distribute 100K+ requests efficiently
• Develop request queuing and prioritization logic using Celery, Redis, and other backend tools
• Optimize request routing and load balancing to ensure high availability and scalability
• Maintain and improve AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CDK and CloudFormation
• Build and manage containerized services using Docker and orchestrate them with AWS ECS/Fargate
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing
• Monitor and fine-tune performance, including load testing and bottleneck resolution
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions using AWS CloudWatch and other tools
• Ensure security best practices and compliance with industry standards
• Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and resolve scalability and infrastructure issues
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends to improve efficiency and reduce costs/risks.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.).
• Strong experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or Splunk.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Solid understanding of networking protocols and security best practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Certification in cloud platforms e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Values and Behaviors

• Constant Learner: Seeks out emerging DevOps trends and harnesses them for practical impact.
• Customer-Obsessed: Designs solutions that deliver real value to users, keeping the customer’s needs at the forefront.
• Mission-Oriented: Committed to bringing breakthrough AI technologies to market.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Embraces ambiguity and drives innovative solutions independently.
• Works with Velocity & Urgency: Efficiently tackles challenges with a results-driven approach.
• Collaborative: Partners effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Accountable: Maintains ownership of initiatives and delivers on commitments.
• Growth Mindset: Views experimentation and iteration as opportunities for improvement.
• Innovative: Thinks outside the box to advance AI-driven product innovation.

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.