DevOps Engineer
Oklo
Location
Remote
Type
Full-time
Posted
Aug 23, 2025
Compensation
USD 85000 – 155000
Mission
What you will drive
DevOps Engineers at Oklo play a critical role in enabling software and infrastructure development across engineering and compliance domains. Responsibilities may include:
- Designing, building, and managing on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for deployment and reactor simulation workflows.
- Implementing compliance measures and tooling across development workflows.
- Enabling CAD infrastructure and integrating CAD tooling into the CI/CD design and simulation processes.
- Monitoring and optimizing system performance and troubleshooting issues as they arise.
- Documenting processes, configurations, and workflows for knowledge sharing.
- Contributing to design discussions and RFCs, and producing clear technical documentation.
- Collaborating effectively across teams, balancing competing priorities, and driving projects forward independently in the face of ambiguity.
Impact
The difference you'll make
This role supports the design and deployment of advanced fission power technology to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale, contributing to a sustainable energy future.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar (or equivalent industry experience).
- 3+ years of experience in a DevOps role, SRE role, or Software Engineering role with a significant infrastructure component.
- Fluent in Python.
- Experience integrating with Siemens NX CAD and NXOpen.
- Software engineering fundamentals and best practices: testing, version control, system design, etc.
- Experience working with cloud concepts, in particular AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, Lambda).
- Experience designing, setting up, and managing CI/CD infrastructure (eg. GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Strong IT/Ops fundamentals with proficiency in Linux/Unix administration, virtualization technologies, and core networking concepts.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience working as a member of a distributed, remote team.
- Experience with Gitlab, including Gitlab CI/CD.
- Experience working with containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Experience working with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Terraform).
- Experience building systems that integrate with third-party tools and APIs.
- Experience with modern security standards and tools.
- Background in nuclear energy or renewable energy systems, with experience in regulatory compliance or nuclear engineering.
Benefits
What's in it for you
Salary: $85,000-$155,000. Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
About
Inside Oklo
Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy.