Hope you are all easing into the end of November without easing off the interesting work. We have some really interesting funding wins and launches from devtools creators. Plus if you are hiring, there is still real momentum in the market. If you are job‑hunting, there are some standout roles for senior engineers, managers, and sales engineers who want genuine ownership rather than “keep the lights on” work.
⚒️ DevTools Job Opportunities of the Week
Senior Staff Engineer | Remote, East Coast USA or Europe | Base up to $400k
Opportunity to join a frontier AI lab training some of the best foundational models for source code generation, with access to thousands of GPUs to test and ship your work. You’ll work on fault‑tolerant distributed training and inference for LLMs: cross‑platform checkpointing, NCCL recovery, hardware fault detection, and performance of large‑scale jobs. Ideal for exceptional systems engineers with deep PyTorch, NVIDIA GPU, Python/C++ and CUDA experience, strong Linux internals (incl. kernel), and a track record building reliable distributed systems in K8s.
Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
Engineering Manager | Remote, USA | Base up to $240k + Equity
Join and lead a team at a high-growth security startup whose open-source tools are already essential safeguards for major tech giants. You’ll lead engineers building customer-facing integrations that help security teams prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities at scale, bridging the gap between developers and security. Ideal for leaders with 3+ years of management experience, a background in product engineering (not just internal tools), and a passion for developer experience.
Contact: Becca Combe MIRP CertRP | +52 998 939 9191 | becca@develocity.io
Senior Sales Engineer | Remote / Hybrid, New York or New Jersey | Base $168-175k + equity
Opportunity to join a mission-driven security company redefining static analysis, helping developers everywhere build more secure applications. You’ll act as the technical expert for customers, integrating security platforms into their SDLC, driving value through automation, and influencing the product roadmap. Ideal for engineers with 8+ years in pre-sales or customer success, deep knowledge of CI/CD environments, and a knack for solving technical challenges.
Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
🏆 Funding Wins
Datum launches with $13.6M seed for network capabilities
Datum has launched with a $13.6 million seed round. The platform gives cloud and AI builders access to capabilities like authoritative DNS, distributed edge proxies, global routing, and private connectivity through tools they already use. It targets new cloud platforms needing serious network presence without a dedicated team or months of custom build‑out. CEO and co-founder Zachary Smith talks about the reasons for Datum and his belief in unlocking the internet superpowers in this youtube video.
Momentic raises $15M Series A for AI‑era app testing
Momentic, founded by Wei-Wei W. and Jeff An closed a $15 million Series A led by Standard Capital with participation from Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform, Karman Ventures, and Dropbox Ventures. The platform is a verification layer that checks whether each release behaves as intended, already used by teams at Notion, Quora, Webflow, and Xero. As AI generates more code, Momentic focuses on automatically testing and validating behavior so changes still match product expectations before and after release. Read the announcement here.
Infracost raises $15M Series A to shift FinOps left
Infracost raised a $15 million Series A led by Pruven Capital. Co‑founder and CEO Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini writes in the company’s announcement:
Cloud spending is on its way to becoming a trillion-dollar market, and the biggest driver behind that growth isn’t AI spend or massive migrations, it’s engineers.
Infracost “shifts FinOps left” by plugging into GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps to show the cost impact of every Infrastructure‑as‑Code change before merge, across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Features like Issue Explorer, AI‑driven AutoFix pull requests, and FinOps Campaigns move cloud‑spend decisions into the code review phase instead of after the bill lands. Read all here.
🚀 Other DevTools News
Bilanc launches AI copilot for engineering leaders
Bilanc (YC W24) , founded by Samuel Akinwunmi launches an AI‑powered copilot for engineering leaders focused on delivery and quality. It analyzes data from dev tools and code changes to generate reports and recommendations on how each change affects productivity. Leaders can query raw data instead of wrestling with Jira and spreadsheets, and track AI adoption and its impact on code quality. Find out more here.
Beam offers open source serverless cloud for AI workloads
Beam launched as an open source alternative to Modal for running AI applications. Developers add a decorator in Python or TypeScript to run GPU inference endpoints, background jobs, and long‑running sandboxes without YAML or complex configuration. A custom container runtime, distributed storage, and gVisor isolation are tuned for fast cold starts, GPU checkpointing, and self‑hosting. Congrats to Eli Mernit and Luke Lombardi on the launch. Check them out here.
Raycast brings its keyboard‑driven command center to Windows
Raycast has launched Raycast for Windows, bringing its Mac “command center” experience to Windows. Press Alt + Space to launch apps, search files, run extensions like GitHub or Notion, and ask AI without using the mouse. It includes custom file search to work around weak Windows indexing, hundreds of extensions, and free AI during the beta. Founder Thomas Paul Mann, announced last week:
Windows has over a billion users who deserve tools that don’t get in the way. Tools that let them do their best work. This is a new start for Windows, and we’re incredibly excited to see what you do with it.
đź‘€ What’s going on at Develocity?
It’s been a busy week here at Develocity. There are no signs of the hiring market slowing down for the season holidays yet, which is amazing for all those job hunting. But amidst all this we have one of our favourite US holiday of the year: Thanksgiving.
So we’re taking a moment, to do just that…
Got launch news or funding to share? Send it to Natalie Harper.
Want more details on the opportunities here or want to register your resume with us, reach out to Becca Combe MIRP CertRP and Louise Ogilvy directly.
For general enquiries, please contact us here
Keywords: developer tools, AI agents, FinOps, cloud cost management, Infrastructure as Code, app testing, serverless AI workloads, developer experience
