DevOps Engineer

Who we are: First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. We use transparent and peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for every property in the world. We started working with the world’s leading climate scientists to create groundbreaking, climate-adjusted, property specific models over 8 years ago and haven’t stopped. 

Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk. 

Our data: We create physics-based, deterministic models of flooding, wildfire and hurricanes, and advanced statistical models of extreme heat, air quality, drought, hail, severe convective storms, winter storms, and more. All of this data is used to create property-level financial risk metrics and macroeconomic variables to quantify the impacts of climate, property by property.

Our customers: We empower governments at the highest levels to make smart regulations, businesses to avoid bad investments, and everyday homebuyers to understand their personal risk from climate change. We are relied on every day by:

• Agencies ranging from the U.S. Department of Treasury to Fannie Mae

• The world's biggest banks such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo 

• Institutional investors like Nuveen and Blackstone 

• Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, Homes.com, and more 

We believe:  With the right data, we can identify the problems, avoid bad investments, and implement solutions. This is why we have invested tens of millions of dollars into our science, data, people, and products and have raised tens of millions more to move even faster. Read more about our culture here and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here. 

Come join us and use your talents to change the world.

Team Role & Overview

We’re hiring our first dedicated DevOps Engineer to take ownership of responsibilities that have historically been shared across engineering. You won’t be “building from zero” - we already have systems in place - but you will bring a high level of ownership over all aspects of your technical practice: smoother deployments, stronger reliability, clearer observability, tighter identity/access controls, and a more repeatable infrastructure foundation.

What you’ll do:

Over your first year, success looks like measurable improvements across:

• Reducing deployment pain: make releases simpler, safer, and faster through better automation, consistent environments, and strong CI/CD practices.

• Improving observability and on-call: strengthen monitoring, alert quality, and incident response so on-call is humane and effective

• Formalizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC): drive repeatability and change control for infrastructure and platform configuration. Why? We are quickly scaling to global, multi-region infrastructure.

• Cost controls: introduce practical FinOps hygiene (visibility, ownership, guardrails, right-sizing).

• Compute environments: own and evolve our platform across AWS and on-prem compute environments (you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with our High Performance Compute team).

• On-call quality: reduce noisy alerts, define SLOs/SLIs where useful, and strengthen incident response practices (runbooks, postmortems, follow-ups).

• Operational workflows: Lead efforts to standardize operational workflows and reduce “institutional knowledge” dependencies across the team.

What you’ll need:

• Strong hands-on DevOps/platform ownership experience, ideally having been the primary owner) in a prior role.

• Deep comfort operating production public cloud systems: debugging, incident response, performance triage, and operational discipline.

• Practical experience improving CI/CD and deployment reliability.

• Fluency with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred) and containerized workloads (Kubernetes experience strongly preferred).

• Security-minded approach, especially around identity and access management and SSO/SAML concepts.

• Ability to work independently with minimal hand-holding, while collaborating effectively across engineering.

Nice-to-have:

• Designing/implementing IaC at scale (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation—whatever you’ve used, we care about principles and outcomes).

• Compliance experience: SOC 2 evidence/control implementation and/or ISO 27001 familiarity.

• Cost optimization and operational metrics (FinOps, capacity planning).

• Experience in finance-related environments or other regulated B2B contexts.

Our anticipated US base salary compensation range for this role is $100,000-180,000 plus stock options and a competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

How we work: 

• Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle 

• Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate and financial risk 

• Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly

• Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it 

• Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do

What we offer: 

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience 

• Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan 

• Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 

• 15 vacation days along with 5 days for winter break office closure, 8 statutory company holidays, and 10 sick days 

• Health benefits covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans 

• Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave 

• Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace

• Company 401k program 

• Commuter benefits 

• Life Insurance

• Tech startup environment 

• Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks 

• Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.