DevOps AI Startup Jobs

Crusoe builds renewable-powered AI infrastructure, including cloud, data center, and manufacturing capabilities designed for large-scale AI workloads.

Company behind the open-source Grafana observability stack providing monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions, reaching $400M ARR as a fully remote company across 40+ countries.

Autonomous penetration testing platform that continuously discovers and exploits attack paths.

Delivers secure container images and tooling to protect open-source supply chains by default.

Kong Inc. provides an open-source API gateway, service mesh, and API management platform that lets developers connect, secure, and observe APIs and microservices across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its Konnect SaaS platform extends this into unified API lifecycle management and, more recently, connectivity for AI applications. Founded in 2009, Kong is a widely adopted developer-infrastructure company.

Postman is an API development and collaboration platform that enables developers to design, build, test, and document APIs. With over 30 million developers and 500,000 companies using the platform, it is the world's leading API platform. The company was founded in 2014 and reached $313M ARR at a $5.6B valuation.

Edge computing company providing modular data centers and connectivity platforms to deliver cloud and AI capabilities to remote environments.

CodeRabbit provides AI-powered code review tooling that reviews pull requests, understands code context, suggests fixes, and helps engineering teams improve code quality and developer productivity. Its platform integrates with developer workflows and focuses on automated, context-aware reviews for teams adopting AI-assisted software development.

Sentry is an application monitoring platform that helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code. It provides error tracking, performance monitoring, and session replay across 100+ languages and frameworks.

Render provides cloud infrastructure for developers to deploy, run, and scale applications, databases, static sites, and AI workloads.

Tailscale builds identity-first networking software on WireGuard so teams can securely connect users, devices, services, and AI systems across private infrastructure without VPN complexity.

Application security and software supply chain security platform for modern DevSecOps.

Quantum and AI company developing solutions for drug discovery, cybersecurity, and navigation.

Serverless cloud platform for developing, deploying, and scaling AI applications. Developers can run any code in the cloud without managing infrastructure, with built-in support for GPU workloads and batch jobs.

Managed workflow orchestration platform built by the original creators of Netflix Conductor for building reliable distributed applications and AI agents at scale.

Rootly is an AI-native incident management and on-call platform that integrates with Slack to help engineering teams detect, manage, and resolve production incidents faster.

incident.io is an incident management platform used by over 1,000 companies including Netflix, Airbnb, and Block to manage hundreds of thousands of incidents. The platform integrates with Slack for real-time coordination and builds AI agents that help resolve incidents autonomously.

Domino Data Lab provides an enterprise AI and MLOps platform for model development, deployment, governance, and compliance. Trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100, the platform helps data science and machine learning teams manage regulated model workflows at scale. The company has rebranded to Domino and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Great Hill Partners, and Highland Capital Partners.

Runlayer is the enterprise control plane for Model Context Protocol (MCP), providing security, observability, and management that lets organizations safely connect AI agents to their internal systems. Backed by customers including Gusto, Instacart, and Opendoor, the platform combines threat detection, detailed permissions, and enterprise development capabilities in one solution.

SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, and logs in a single tool, positioned as a self-hostable alternative to Datadog. It offers both self-hosted and cloud options and is used by 700+ customers with 26,000+ GitHub stars. Founded in 2020 by Pranay Prateek and Ankit Nayan, the company was part of Y Combinator and operates primarily out of India with a US entity.

Blacksmith accelerates GitHub Actions by running CI/CD workflows 2x faster at half the cost using high-performance gaming CPUs optimized for continuous integration.

A FinOps platform that automates cloud cost collection, allocation, and analysis to help engineering teams build cost-efficient software and improve unit economics.

Open-access AI cloud providing fast, affordable GPU compute, serverless inference, and dedicated hosting through a decentralized marketplace, helping developers reduce AI infrastructure costs by 50-75%.

Network infrastructure management platform based on open-source NetBox for enterprise automation.

Traversal builds AI-powered site reliability engineering agents that investigate incidents, triage alerts, and automate infrastructure remediation.

Grid-aware orchestration software that schedules AI data-center compute based on real-time power signals.

Faros AI is a San Francisco Bay Area company operating an AI-native engineering intelligence platform for the full software development lifecycle. It connects data from source control, CI/CD, ticketing, incident, and AI coding tools into a single model of engineering activity. Engineering leaders use it to measure developer productivity, delivery outcomes, and AI-tool ROI.

Moderne provides a platform for mass-scale automated code refactoring and modernization, built on the open-source OpenRewrite project. The platform enables enterprises to automatically remediate technical debt, apply security fixes, and perform framework migrations at scale.

Oxide Computer Company builds rack-scale cloud computing infrastructure for enterprises that need the agility of public cloud with the control and security of on-premises hardware. Their integrated hardware-software platform delivers a complete cloud experience in a single rack unit.

AI-enabled managed IT service platform providing technology services, talent, expertise, and capital to help MSPs build generational businesses. Backed by Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners with experience in over 200 acquisitions.

Daytona provides secure, elastic sandbox infrastructure for running AI-generated code and agent workflows, giving developers and AI agents isolated, programmable environments with fast startup and persistent state.

Semgrep is a fast and lightweight static analysis tool and application security platform for finding security vulnerabilities in source code. It enables developer-first security workflows with high accuracy and minimal friction, serving companies like Figma, Dropbox, and Snowflake.

Automated cloud cost optimization platform with AI-based analysis, reserved instance management, anomaly detection, and infrastructure rightsizing to help companies save up to 75% on AWS costs.

AI-native unified cybersecurity platform for MSPs protecting SMBs from cyber threats.

Software supply chain security platform delivering comprehensive vulnerability management with curated near-zero-CVE open-source images, automated CVE remediation, and container hardening capabilities. Simplifies FedRAMP compliance and accelerates DevSecOps workflows.

Log monitoring and observability platform for developers providing comprehensive monitoring solutions with profitability achieved in 2023

Browserbase provides cloud-hosted browser infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents and web automation. The platform enables developers to host, manage, and monitor headless browsers at scale with features including proxies, stealth mode, session recording, and debugging tools, serving over 20,000 developers.

Cortex is an internal developer portal and Engineering Operations platform that helps organizations reduce developer tax and improve operational maturity. It provides engineering teams with a centralized catalog of services, scorecards for reliability standards, and automation to foster ownership.

An all-in-one open source platform to securely manage application configuration and secrets like API keys and database credentials across teams and infrastructure.

Meticulous is an AI-powered frontend testing platform that removes the need to write or maintain end-to-end UI tests. It records real user interactions in development and staging, then automatically generates and continuously updates an exhaustive visual regression test suite that runs on every pull request. London-based with a San Francisco presence, backed by Y Combinator, Chemistry, Menlo Ventures and Coatue.

Raindrop is an observability and monitoring platform for AI agents, often described as 'Sentry for AI products.' The platform helps engineering teams detect, track, and fix silent failures in AI agents running in production environments. Founded by Y Combinator alumni and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Raindrop provides automated issue discovery, triage, and detailed failure explanations for AI systems.

Resolve AI builds an autonomous AI Production Engineer that investigates and fixes complex production system issues end-to-end. Founded by the core creators of OpenTelemetry and former leaders of Splunk Observability, the platform automates site reliability engineering tasks.

Tracebit builds cloud-native deception technology, automatically generating and maintaining decoy resources ("canaries") across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, developer workstations and identity providers. When an attacker touches a canary, it fires a high-fidelity alert, cutting breach detection from months to minutes. Founded in 2023 by ex-Tessian engineers Andy Smith (CEO) and Sam Cox (CTO), it is headquartered in London with a New York office and counts Riot Games, Snyk, Docker and Synthesia as customers.

AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform that automates alert triage, investigation, and response using agentic AI SOC analysts. Reduces investigation time by 360,000 hours and delivers 10x faster response times while reducing false positives by 96%.

Span is an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that plugs into a team's existing developer tools to unify metrics, surveys, and contextual data. It helps engineering leaders understand how teams spend their time and how AI coding tools are actually being used, with customers including Ramp and Vanta. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, it raised $25M in combined seed and Series A funding in November 2025.

Echo is an AI-native software security company that builds CVE-free, vulnerability-free container base images as drop-in replacements for standard Docker images. Its AI agents strip open-source images of non-essential components to eliminate vulnerabilities at the source while preserving functionality. Founded in 2025 by ex-Argon founders Eilon Elhadad and Eylam Milner, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv with a New York office.

Self-healing software platform that automates bug detection, diagnosis, and resolution, enabling applications to fix user experience issues before humans intervene. Backed by Y Combinator (S25), Vercel, and Designer Fund.

Pulumi builds an infrastructure as code platform that lets engineers define and manage cloud infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, and Java instead of bespoke DSLs. Its open-source engine is paired with Pulumi Cloud, a managed service for state, secrets, policy, and team collaboration across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. The company is remote-first, headquartered in Seattle, and hires through Greenhouse.

SF Compute provides rentable, large, low-cost GPU clusters for AI pre-training workloads. The platform operates as a marketplace connecting AI teams with on-demand high-performance computing capacity, offering flexible access to supercomputing-scale infrastructure with InfiniBand interconnects.

Vantage provides cloud cost observability and optimization software for engineering and finance teams managing multi-cloud spend.

Checkly offers application monitoring powered by Playwright and OpenTelemetry so teams can test and monitor apps, APIs, and services as code.

Unified ingress platform providing developers with secure tunnels, reverse proxy, API gateway, and global load balancing used by over 7 million developers worldwide.

Open-source, identity-aware access proxy providing zero-trust secure access to internal applications without requiring a VPN, continuously verifying user identity and device context.

Railway offers a cloud deployment platform that helps engineering teams ship and operate applications and databases with minimal infrastructure overhead.

Conductor is a developer-tools startup that lets engineers run a team of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in parallel, isolated workspaces on their Mac, then review and merge the agents' work. Launched in 2025, it is used by engineers at companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, and Stripe. It raised a $22M Series A led by Matrix and Spark in March 2026.

Flox builds reproducible development environments for enterprise software teams, built on Nix with Nix knowledge optional. Its platform delivers cryptographically pinned environments that stay identical from a developer's laptop through CI to production, eliminating environment drift and strengthening software supply chain security. A spinout of the D. E. Shaw group, Flox offers both an open-source platform and enterprise SaaS.

Plural provides a Kubernetes management platform for deploying, operating, and governing fleets across cloud environments.

Union.ai provides production infrastructure for AI and ML workflows on top of Flyte, helping engineering teams orchestrate, deploy, and operate reliable model and data pipelines.

Bot protection and anti-fraud security platform with transparent, CAPTCHA-free defense.

Momentic makes AI-powered tools for software testing and verification, allowing teams to describe tests in plain English while the AI handles navigating user flows, interacting with screens, and validating results, helping companies like Notion, Quora, and Webflow ship faster with confidence.

Axiom is a cloud-native observability platform providing serverless log management, tracing, and AI telemetry. It eliminates the need to manage complex infrastructure or worry about data limits when storing and querying event data.

Cleric builds an AI site reliability engineer that investigates incidents, reasons across production signals, and helps engineering teams resolve operational issues faster.

Developer observability for live apps: dynamic logs, metrics, traces without restarts.

Ranger is an AI-powered QA testing platform that writes, runs, maintains, and triages end-to-end tests for software teams. Its service combines AI-generated Playwright coverage with human QA review so product and engineering teams can catch production risks while shipping faster.

Byteport builds global upload acceleration infrastructure for 1GB-100TB files using DART (Dynamic Accelerated Record Transfer), a proprietary UDP-based protocol that is typically 10x faster than TCP. The platform serves AI clusters, robotics, satellite networks, drone fleets, and defense applications, with SDKs across Python, Java, .NET, C++, Node.js, iOS, and Android. Backed by Y Combinator Winter 2026.

Charm builds open-source tools and libraries for the command line, including Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Glow, making terminal user interfaces beautiful and developer-friendly.

Conduktor builds an enterprise data management platform for Apache Kafka, giving teams a unifying layer to monitor, secure, and govern real-time data streaming. It provides security controls, monitoring, and governance to help regulated enterprises scale their Kafka usage. The company is headquartered in London with US expansion underway.

Coralogix is a full-stack observability and security platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and security data using a streaming ('Streama') engine and customer-owned storage, purpose-built for AI-scale telemetry. It serves 5,000+ customers including IBM and JFrog. The Israel-founded company raised a $200M Series F in June 2026 at a $1.6B valuation, bringing total funding to $550M.

Dawnguard is a security architecture automation platform that shifts cloud security decisions into the design phase instead of scanning for vulnerabilities after systems ship. Its AI-powered platform translates corporate policy, regulatory requirements, and security standards into concrete architecture decisions, guardrails, and production-ready Infrastructure as Code across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It continuously validates that systems meet those requirements in both development and production.

AI-native managed detection and response platform fusing agentic AI with human expertise for threat detection and security operations

Defakto (formerly SPIRL, rebranded October 2025) builds a non-human identity and access management platform that replaces static secrets and overprivileged service accounts with short-lived, cryptographically verifiable workload identities. Built on the open SPIFFE standard, it discovers, issues, enforces, and governs identities for services, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, and AI agents across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by Eli Nesterov (CTO) and Danny Oliveri (CEO), it was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security in 2025.

Autonomous AI SOC analyst platform that investigates security alerts end-to-end, reducing triage time and alert fatigue for security teams.

Cloud and AI infrastructure security platform with container-native Type-1 hypervisor for workload isolation, preventing container escapes while maintaining Kubernetes compatibility and native performance.

Entelligence AI is an AI-powered code review and engineering team management platform that functions as an AI Tech Lead. It automates PR reviews, surfaces bugs early, maintains documentation, and provides engineering leadership with team velocity insights.

GitButler builds a next-generation Git client that replaces the branch-and-stash workflow with virtual branches, letting developers work on multiple changes in one working directory. Founded by GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon, the open-source Rust/Tauri desktop app adds AI-generated commit messages, unlimited undo, and version-control primitives aimed at AI coding agents. The company raised a $17M Series A led by a16z in April 2026.

Inforcer is a Microsoft multi-tenant management platform built for managed service providers and IT outsourcing firms. It lets MSPs deploy, standardize, and enforce Microsoft 365, Intune, Entra, and Defender security policies and baselines across hundreds of client tenants from one console. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in London, it serves 800+ MSP customers managing large fleets of small-business endpoints.

Milestone (Milestone AI Ltd.) is the operating layer for AI-native engineering — a platform that measures GenAI adoption and ROI across software teams by joining data from codebases, project management tools, team structures, and AI coding assistants into a single "GenAI data lake". It lets engineering leaders track AI tool spend, trace AI-generated code to delivery and quality outcomes, and govern autonomous agents. Founded by Liad Elidan (CEO) and Prof. Stephen Barrett (CTO) out of a Trinity College Dublin research collaboration, with customers including monday.com, Kayak, Sapiens, HiBob, Varonis, and Cross River Bank.

MindFort is an applied AI security lab building autonomous agents that find, validate, exploit, and patch vulnerabilities in production web applications. Its agents run continuous penetration tests across a company's attack surface on every CI/CD push, chain findings into working proofs of exploit, and ship remediations as pull requests. Founded in 2025 out of Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch.

Netris provides network automation, abstraction, and multi-tenancy (NAAM) software for GPU clouds, AI data centers, and AI factories. Its platform automatically configures the underlying network and isolates customers and workloads at the hardware layer, cutting the time neoclouds and sovereign AI operators need to go live. The company raised a $15M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026.

Niteshift is a New York-based cloud platform for AI coding agents, letting teams define their dev environment, services, and automations once and run any frontier agent (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) against a real application stack. The platform handles runtime, databases, auth, testing, and verification workflows so agents can build and validate software autonomously, and is deliberately model- and vendor-agnostic. Founded by former early Datadog engineering leaders Sajid Mehmood and Conor Branagan.

Parsimo is an agentic AI cost optimization platform whose autonomous AI agents continuously observe, reason, and act to eliminate wasted spend across public cloud, neocloud, and on-prem environments, reducing infrastructure costs by up to 70%. It converges FinOps, SecOps, and GreenOps into a single autonomous platform. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Port is an agentic internal developer portal platform that helps engineering teams build autonomous workflows to accelerate software delivery. It provides a unified context lake, software catalog, AI agents, and workflow orchestration tools that integrate across the development toolchain.

PostQ is a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness platform that helps organizations discover, assess, and migrate quantum-vulnerable encryption. It provides a free public TLS/certificate scanner plus cryptographic inventory across Kubernetes, cloud KMS, JWTs, and code-signing, scoring PQC readiness and planning migration to NIST standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA). The company is a PKI Consortium member and integrates with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Cloudflare.

Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) builds an AI code quality and verification platform that reviews, tests, and validates code before it ships. Its agents cover PR review, test generation, and enterprise governance for AI-generated code, with customers including NVIDIA, Walmart, Red Hat, Intuit, and Monday.com. Founded in 2022 in Tel Aviv, it has raised $120M total across seed, Series A, and a $70M Series B in March 2026.

Qpoint is an egress observability and security platform that uses eBPF to give engineering and security teams visibility and control over how applications communicate with external APIs and third-party services. Its lightweight Qtap agent captures outbound traffic metadata and payloads to monitor service health, API usage, and dependencies, while Qcontrol policies enforce runtime governance and a zero-trust posture for external traffic.

RunPod is a GPU cloud infrastructure provider that enables developers, researchers, and AI companies to deploy and scale GPU workloads on demand. The platform offers serverless inference, on-demand GPU pods, and instant multi-node clusters, serving over 500,000 developers.

Shiplight AI is an agentic QA testing platform for modern development teams, providing AI-generated tests with self-healing automation that adapts to UI changes and integrates with CI/CD workflows.

SkyPilot is an AI compute platform that commercializes the popular open-source SkyPilot project developed at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab. It acts as a control plane that pools compute across 20+ clouds, neoclouds, Kubernetes, and Slurm into a single interface, automatically routing workloads to the most available and cheapest GPUs without code rewrites. Founded by Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica with CEO Zongheng Yang, it launched from stealth in July 2026 with $20M in seed funding.

Spectro Cloud builds a unified management platform for Kubernetes, virtual machines, edge computing, and AI/GPU infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, data centers, edge, and air-gapped environments. Its Palette and PaletteAI products let enterprises turn their own GPU servers into private AI inference platforms running open-source models, with policy-driven governance and lifecycle automation. Customers include T-Mobile, Airbus, Yum! Brands, and the U.S. Air Force.

Tempest is an enterprise-grade internal developer platform built by the former Fleetsmith team (acquired by Apple). It automates infrastructure provisioning, enables self-serve developer workflows, and provides a fully-managed developer portal ensuring compliance with security standards.

Temporal provides a durable execution platform that enables developers to build reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. The open-source workflow orchestration engine ensures long-running processes and agentic AI workloads run to completion even in the face of failures.

This Dot (This Dot Labs) is a US-based web platform consultancy and developer-relations firm founded by Tracy Lee and Jay Phelps, providing senior JavaScript/front-end architects for consulting, custom development, architecture assessments, and engineering training. It works with clients such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and PayPal, and is heavily involved in open-source (RxJS, Angular, React, Vue ecosystems). NMSDC- and WBENC-certified (minority- and women-owned), headquartered in Peachtree City, Georgia, with a remote-first engineering team.

Tracer is the first pipeline monitoring system purpose-built for high-performance computing in life sciences, providing real-time performance metrics, cost breakdowns, and optimization insights for complex computational pipelines.

TraceRoot AI is an open-source self-healing layer for AI agents that automatically identifies and resolves production bugs. It captures traces, logs, and metrics, then uses AI agents that analyze source code and GitHub history to perform root cause analysis and auto-fix issues. Part of Y Combinator's S25 batch.

Dev tools startup redefining software development at scale, offering tools for detecting and managing flaky tests, pull request merge queues, and flattening productivity curves as projects grow.

Vers (built by High Dimensional Research) provides git-like version control for live virtual machines, letting users branch, commit, and instantly resume running VMs with full memory, process, and network state preserved. It targets AI agent swarms, CI/CD preview environments, and long-running agentic workloads that need fast, checkpoint-based compute branching for coordinating multiple coding/agent sessions.

Zephyr Cloud is a cloud-agnostic, framework-agnostic platform providing orchestration and observability for composable micro-frontend systems, enabling enterprise teams to deploy micro-frontend changes globally in real time. Founded in 2023 by Dmitriy Shekhovtsov and Zackary Chapple, the team behind Module Federation, the company integrates with cloud providers like Cloudflare and Netlify.