DevOps AI Startup Jobs

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as a fast drop-in replacement for Node.js. Written in Zig and powered by JavaScriptCore, it bundles a runtime, bundler, transpiler, and package manager into a single tool.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Graphite is a developer productivity platform providing AI-powered code review and stacked pull request tools for engineering teams. The platform serves tens of thousands of engineers at over 500 companies including Shopify, Snowflake, Figma, and Perplexity. Graphite was acquired by Cursor (Anysphere) in December 2025 for a price well above its $290 million valuation.

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%.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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