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CAREERS · FOUNDER-LED

Build the future of agentic SRE.

Nova is a small, focused team building the operating system for autonomous site reliability. We hire for builders who ship, not for resumes. If you've ever been on-call at 3am and thought 'this should be automatable', we should talk.

What we look for

  • You've shipped something hard. A platform, a system, an open-source project, a successful incident response. Track record over titles.
  • You think in systems. When you see a bug, you think about the class of bugs it represents and what removes the class entirely.
  • You write clearly. Code, docs, pull-request descriptions, postmortems. The medium is irrelevant; the clarity is everything.
  • You're calm under load. Production breaks. The on-call who stays calm is worth ten of the one who panics.
  • You're hungry to learn. Nova spans observability, AI, distributed systems, security, sales. You won't be expert in all of it on day one; you should be willing to become expert in the parts that matter.

How we work

Remote-first, async-default. Most work happens in writing, code, or recorded demos. Real-time meetings are reserved for decisions that genuinely benefit from synchronous discussion.

Ship-then-iterate. Small, frequent releases beat big, infrequent ones. The DORA metrics are not just for customers, they're how we operate internally.

Build in public. Most of what we build ends up on the blog, in the GitHub org, or as part of the open-source CLI. The work is the marketing.

Founder-direct. You'll work alongside the founding team on hard product calls in week one, not through layers of management.

How hiring works

We hire when we meet the right person for a real problem, rather than maintaining a fixed list of open roles. Engineering, design, GTM, and solutions are all areas we're actively growing. If you can imagine a role that helps Nova ship faster, propose it.

What to send: a short note about what you've built (one paragraph + one or two links), and what you'd want to build at Nova (one paragraph). No cover letter, no resume necessary, though include a CV/LinkedIn if you'd like.

Compensation & logistics

Cash + equity, weighted toward equity. The equity grant is meaningful and the upside is real. Cash is competitive but not FAANG-tier; that's deliberate.

Remote-friendly worldwide. Async-default. Some roles will need overlap with North American business hours.

Health, time off, learning budget. Standard at hire.

Apply to Nova

Every application gets a personal read and a reply within one business day.

A platform, a system, an open-source project, a successful incident response. The thing you'd point to.
Or email careers@novaaiops.com directly.