Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance Localize's technical infrastructure, databases, and platform tools.

• Manage and oversee infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare.

• Guarantee the scalability, reliability, performance, and security of Redis and MongoDB data stores.

• Take charge of refining deployment and release processes, including automation, safe rollouts, and rollback strategies.

• Collaborate with product engineers to enhance the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), development environments, CI/CD, automated quality and security checks, and release readiness.

• Lead activities related to infrastructure security and SOC 2 Type II compliance.

• Operate and enhance technical controls, maintain audit-ready documentation, assist in audits, and address findings.

• Manage access, vulnerabilities, changes, logging, and backup and recovery mechanisms.

• Play a key role in incident response and conduct blameless post-incident reviews.

• Prioritize infrastructure and SDLC enhancements based on customer impact, business priorities, and risk assessments.

• Communicate trade-offs and evaluate outcomes related to reliability, delivery speed, security, and cost-efficiency.

• Monitor uptime and performance using tools such as Datadog, ClickHouse, HyperDX, and Grafana.

• Identify, plan, and implement improvements in infrastructure cost, reliability, and scalability.

• Develop and manage infrastructure and dependency documentation and mapping.

• Acquire and apply knowledge of new technologies and systems to enhance infrastructure efficiency and capabilities.

• Report directly to the Engineering Manager.

• Support Localize's platform, which automates the translation of web and mobile applications for businesses entering new markets.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of engineering experience.

• A minimum of 4 years in a DevOps role.

• Proficiency in managing and optimizing infrastructure within AWS.

• Experience with Redis and MongoDB, including their configuration, monitoring, optimization, and backup management.

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as OpenTofu and Terragrunt.

• Experience in manual or automated deployment and release management.

• Strong understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes and tools.

• Practical experience in securing production infrastructure, including least-privilege access controls, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and security monitoring.

• Capability to translate security and compliance requirements into repeatable engineering practices, maintain evidence of control operations, and support SOC 2 Type II audit readiness and remediation efforts.

• Experience collaborating with product engineers to enhance the SDLC while balancing feature delivery with reliability, security, and developer productivity.

• Customer-focused and aligned with business objectives.

• Skills in evaluating and optimizing infrastructure and application performance for enhanced reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

• Proficiency in command line scripting.

• Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning, ensuring data integrity and availability during emergencies.

• Familiarity with APM and logging tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, or Kibana.

• Previous experience working in a remote role is essential.

• Must reside in and be eligible to work in the US.

• A cover letter is required.

• Nice-to-have: Knowledge of TypeScript, React, Mongoose, and LESS.

• Nice-to-have: Experience in applied LLM engineering, prompt/context engineering, token management, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, MCP, tool/function calling, and agents.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• 401(k) plan with 4% matching.

• 100% company-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Company-funded life insurance and AD&D insurance.

• Work from anywhere in North America (fully remote).

• New Macbook (or computer of your choice).

• Monthly stipend for home internet expenses.

• Generous paid time off (PTO) package.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• A healthy work-life balance.

• Comprehensive benefits package.