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Namespace Labs is a developer infrastructure platform that accelerates build, test, and CI workflows. The company has built a low-friction solution that integrates seamlessly into existing developer toolchains, delivering dramatic performance improvements (5x faster builds) and cost efficiency. Hundreds of companies worldwide use Namespace to eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and ship features faster.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure powering every customer build, test, and CI job on the Namespace platform. You'll work across the full stack—compute, memory, storage, and networking—to keep the platform fast, reliable, and cost-effective as the company scales.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning infrastructure reliability, performance, and scalability for all customer workloads
- Optimizing performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking layers
- Automating provisioning, deployment, scaling, and recovery across the fleet
- Building observability, alerting, and incident response processes to identify and resolve issues proactively
- Driving capacity planning and cost efficiency initiatives
- Collaborating closely with product engineers to ship new capabilities quickly and safely
Namespace values execution-oriented engineers with grit who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and iterate quickly. The culture emphasizes transparency, pragmatism, and impact.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience operating production infrastructure at scale
- Deep knowledge of Linux, networking, and storage
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages; automation is paramount
- Deep experience with observability tooling and on-call rotation participation
- Strong focus on performance with a rigorous approach to measuring and improving it
- Bonus: experience with bare metal, virtualization (KVM, Firecracker), or running CI/CD systems at scale
