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Distyl AI

Builds AI systems for enterprise operations

Infrastructure Engineer - Agentic DevSecOps

Full-Time
$200k - $250k+ Equity
Expert
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
HybridThree or more days in-office per week, Tuesday through Thursday.
DevOps & InfrastructureDevOps Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developer productivity, site reliability engineering, or related infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Experience enabling engineers to use coding agents through reusable tools, workflows, and guidance, with independent validation and scoped access.
  • Experience owning production build, test, and release infrastructure across services and teams, including versioned release bundles and compatibility testing.
  • Hands-on experience with build systems, dependency management, reproducibility, performance diagnosis, and caching.
  • Strong Python skills for building and debugging backend services and maintainable automation, and comfort navigating unfamiliar code, including JavaScript frontends.
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and experience building and maintaining secure container images; working knowledge of Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and cloud deployment.
  • Hands-on experience implementing software supply-chain controls, with demonstrated security judgment across permissions, credentials, dependencies, artifacts, and remediation.
  • Experience building developer platforms, automated remediation, or reusable agent tooling adopted by other engineers.
  • A record of improving build and test performance, release reliability, and tooling adoption using metrics and developer feedback.
  • Experience independently leading complex projects and migrations; the posting especially values a record of setting technical direction and driving adoption across teams, defending technical choices with evidence, and adapting to changing constraints.
Responsibilities
  • Set direction and priorities for build, test, release, and coding-agent infrastructure; choose tools and standards with engineering partners; and own implementation, adoption, and operation across teams.
  • Standardize repository conventions and reusable build and test workflows, and make builds reproducible and efficient through explicit dependencies, consistent tooling, and effective caching.
  • Build once and promote versioned bundles of immutable artifacts through release stages, with source traceability and test and security gates.
  • Partner with Platform, Runtime, and Customer Delivery on integration and compatibility testing, configuration and schema changes, and recovery; support customer-registry distribution and offline packaging where required.
  • Equip engineers with reusable coding-agent tools to diagnose failures, propose fixes, and handle routine work, including tests, scoped permissions, failure handling, and independent output validation; measure quality and time saved.
  • Implement artifact signing and provenance, software bills of materials, isolated build runners, scoped continuous integration credentials, and vulnerability gates; integrate dependency and container remediation into engineering workflows.
  • Understand engineers' workflows and remove friction with self-service tools, documentation, and diagnostics that distinguish code failures from tooling issues; use developer feedback to guide incremental migrations, earn adoption, and reduce manual work.
  • Track build and test latency, pipeline reliability, flaky-test rates, release lead time, and tooling adoption; use these signals and developer feedback to reduce flaky tests and bottlenecks; set service-level objectives and route actionable alerts to owners.
Desired Qualifications
  • Building and operating testing infrastructure in a microservices environment.
  • Distributing release artifacts to customer registries or restricted environments, including offline packaging.

About the company

Distyl AI builds AI systems for large enterprises that need to automate complex business operations rather than isolated tasks. Its Distillery platform brings the tools for creating and running those systems together, while engineers and researchers work alongside customers to define the problem and put solutions into use. The company combines purpose-built software with implementation engagements across telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing and retail, covering work such as customer service and supply chain decisions. Customers buy tailored enterprise deployments that connect business expertise with AI tools and are measured against operational outcomes. Founded in 2022, Distyl AI is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$202M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • Production exposure is substantial: Distyl reports its AI systems reach more than 150 million end users.
  • Family coverage reduces benefit costs: Distyl covers 100% of medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • An engineer stays hands-on: Distyl's Broadhurst leads a small team while continuing to code and ship.

What critics are saying

  • Office attendance limits flexibility: Distyl requires engineers and most other roles in SF or NYC three days weekly.
  • Fixes carry regression risk: Distyl describes AI changes improving one behavior while degrading another in production.
  • Technical approaches keep changing: Distyl's Broadhurst describes discarding assumptions as models and tools reshape engineering work.

What makes Distyl AI unique

  • Audit trails are built in: Distillery traces AI decisions to the exact knowledge state used at runtime.
  • Testing starts without customer benchmarks: Weave generates synthetic evaluation sets from task descriptions before optimizing AI systems.
  • Data stays in place: Context Mesh reads existing enterprise systems and shares agent decisions without migration.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Company Equity
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

12%
The Business Journals
Sep 23rd, 2026
Distyl AI doubles office footprint in Midtown South.

Distyl AI doubles office footprint in Midtown South. By Arabella Saunders - Staff Reporter, New York Business Journal Sep 23, 2026 Preview this article 1 min The company signed a 16-month lease for the entire ninth floor. It already occupies the 10th floor. THIS REMAINDER OF THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS Access 4 weeks of award-winning news and insights Subscribe for only $4 * 2 AI companies take full floors in Flatiron District * Former Palantir execs expand AI startup headquarters in NYC * These 3 sectors dominate Manhattan's tightening office market

PR Newswire
Sep 23rd, 2025
Distyl AI Raises $175 Million at $1.8 Billion Valuation to Help Global Enterprises Become AI-Native

/PRNewswire/ -- Distyl AI, the startup helping blue-chip leaders worldwide build the AI-native enterprises of the future, today announced a $175 million...

TechStartups
Sep 22nd, 2025
Distyl AI raises $175M at $1.8B valuation

Distyl AI, founded by ex-Palantir engineers, has raised $175 million at a $1.8 billion valuation to expand its AI consulting platform. The company, known for embedding AI into core business operations, has attracted clients like T-Mobile. Distyl's approach focuses on delivering impactful results quickly, differentiating it from traditional consulting firms. The funding will help expand its team and refine its platform, aiming to capture a share of the growing $300 billion enterprise AI market.

Venture Capital
Nov 19th, 2024
Distyl AI Secures $20M Series A Funding

Distyl AI has secured $20M in Series A funding to integrate OpenAI technologies and deliver transformative outcomes for its Fortune 100 customers.

Yahoo Finance
Nov 19th, 2024
Distyl Secures $20M from Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures to Deliver Biggest, Most Impactful Enterprise AI Outcomes

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Distyl has raised $20 million in Series A funding to supercharge its growth and to meet the accelerating demand from its Fortune 100 customers. This round adds Lightspeed Venture Partners, who led the round, and Khosla Ventures, early investors in OpenAI.