15Five
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If you're energized by a fast pace, high standards, and high accountability for yourself and others, you'll thrive here and we encourage you to apply.
15Five is the AI-powered performance management platform built for business impact. 15Five’s AI-powered all-in-one people management system is easy to use, delivers effortless insights, and enables managers to lead with impact so that companies and their people can thrive. Within the flow of work, HR leaders are empowered with data-driven insights and recommendations while managers are transformed into change-makers, accelerating engagement, performance, and retention. 15Five combines generative AI, custom analytics, and human-centered principles within a complete platform, including 360° performance reviews, engagement surveys, goal tracking, manager coaching and training, and ongoing feedback tools like guided 1-on-1s and check-ins.
A career at 15Five is the chance to have high impact in a fast paced, remote startup environment that operates with focus, urgency, and accountability. Every role and every hire meaningfully impacts our trajectory.
We’re a high-performance, high-purpose team that gives you the chance to Build the Future of Work. We run on High Standards and High Support — holding a high bar for results, ownership, clarity, and disciplined execution, while investing in manager enablement, skill development, and whole-person care. We are committed to a No B.S. environment, meaning we anchor ourselves in truth, course-correct in real time, and expect people to lean into direct conversations. We are focused on ensuring every 15Fiver can Work in the Future and that starts with proactively using AI across all aspects of your role to increase leverage, speed, and impact.
If you're energized by a fast pace, high standards, and high accountability for yourself and others, you'll thrive here and we encourage you to apply.
Architecture: provide design input on infrastructure and systems for security, scalability, reliability and performance.
Databases: run PostgreSQL upgrades, backups, restore tests and tuning.
CI/CD and release engineering: build and improve the pipelines that ship code to production.
Reliability and incidents: own Datadog observability and alerting, take part in the on-call rotation (including scheduled after-hours coverage), respond to incidents and lead post-incident reviews.
Disaster recovery: maintain and test backups, failover and DR plans.
Security and compliance: manage access and secret rotation, patch vulnerabilities, configure Cloudflare network/VPN and email and domain security (MTA-STS), and support audits.
AI platform and governance: deploy and secure MCP servers, LLM integrations and agent frameworks; build AI workflow automations; manage prompts, skills and evals in our Prompt Test Manager; enforce least-privilege access; track AI usage and spend; help shape AI policy; and administer AI tools across the company.
Configuration management: maintain Ansible for user access and server configuration, and automate repeatable work.
Cross-functional support: resolve requests from engineering and business teams, including internal systems, vendor integrations and access provisioning.
Projects and documentation: scope and deliver infrastructure, operations and AI projects, and keep runbooks and Guru current.
What Success Looks Like
3 months: onboarded, on the on-call rotation, handling cross-team requests and reviewing infrastructure changes.
6 months: running incidents end to end, leading a DR or restore test, and owning AI platform operations.
Deep hands-on experience with AWS and Linux, and with running production Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
Infrastructure as code with Terraform (Terragrunt a plus) and Helm.
Configuration management with Ansible.
Strong scripting in Python and/or Bash, and Git-based workflows.
Monitoring and alerting with Datadog or similar tools, plus hands-on on-call and incident response experience.
PostgreSQL administration: upgrades, backups, restores and performance tuning.
Practical security operations: IAM and access management, secrets, patching and network configuration.
Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical people.
Comfort owning projects end to end on a small team.
Experience deploying or securing AI tooling: MCP servers, LLM APIs, agent frameworks or prompt evaluation pipelines.
Experience with AI governance: access controls, usage and cost tracking, or acceptable-use policies.
Cloudflare (Zero Trust/VPN, DNS) and email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS).
Experience supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits.
Disaster recovery testing and multi-region resilience.
Familiarity with Django or other Python web applications.
Infrastructure as code and configuration: Terraform/Terragrunt, Helm/Helmfile, Ansible
Delivery: CI/CD pipelines, Git
Observability: Datadog, VictorOps on-call paging
Network and security: Cloudflare, DNS, MTA-STS
AI: MCP servers, LLM integrations, Prompt Test Manager
Occasional early-morning or evening meetings support US and EU teammates is expected.
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