Job Details

Overview

About Collate: Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders. We're a small, elite team, with over $30M in seed funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, Conviction, and Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join at the ground floor of a company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

About the Role: We're looking for a DevOps / Systems Engineer to own the infrastructure that powers Collate's products. You'll build the systems and tooling that keep our platform reliable, secure, and fast as we scale.

What You'll Do

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure to support Collate's products as we grow from prototypes to production scale.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automation that accelerate developer velocity and reduce operational friction.
• Manage core system reliability, including monitoring, logging, and incident response.
• Take on light security responsibilities, such as handling certificates, secrets management, and supporting compliance needs.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design infrastructure that balances speed, safety, and scale.
• Continuously improve internal tooling and workflows, helping the team move faster with confidence.
• Leverage tooling including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Grafana, and Github Actions.

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern DevOps practices.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling.
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident management.
• Interest or experience in light security work, including certificates, secrets management, or compliance support.
• A pragmatic approach: able to balance iteration speed with building for long-term reliability.
• Motivation to work in an early-stage startup where your infrastructure decisions shape the foundation of the company.

Why Join Collate

Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes.

Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.

Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders.

Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact.

The base salary range for this role is $150,000–$300,000 USD annually, depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco)