Senior Dev Ops Engineer, Reality Defender
$170-200k
Offers equity and bonus
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
Be an early applicant
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-200k
Offers equity and bonus
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a closely related discipline
- Expert-level experience with both AWS and Azure — this is a core requirement
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, scalability, and reliability
- Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerized environments
- Deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, routing, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs
- Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and cloud security
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms and practices
- Strong scripting/programming ability in languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar
- Experience operating production systems where reliability and uptime matter
- Excellent incident response and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership from architecture through implementation and operations
- Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with software engineers, security teams, and technical leadership
What the job involves
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key technical owner of our cloud infrastructure and deployment ecosystem
- You will work across engineering to build highly reliable infrastructure, automate operational processes, strengthen our security posture, and make it easier for teams to ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role
- We are looking for someone who is exceptionally strong in both AWS and Azure and can operate comfortably across complex cloud environments. You should be the person engineers turn to when something needs to be architected, automated, scaled, secured, or fixed
- You will have significant autonomy and ownership, with the opportunity to shape our infrastructure and DevOps practices as the company scales
- Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and other automation tools
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release automation
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Establish strong observability across infrastructure and applications, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics using DataDog
- Build systems and processes that improve reliability, uptime, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Partner with Engineering and Security to identify and remediate infrastructure and cloud security risks
- Manage cloud networking, identity management, object storage, RDBMS, access controls, secrets management, DNS, load balancing, and related infrastructure
- Automate repetitive operational work and eliminate manual processes wherever possible
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead infrastructure-related incident response
- Establish and improve infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational best practices
- Help evaluate and implement new cloud technologies and tooling as our architecture evolves
- Support the infrastructure requirements of high-scale AI/ML workloads
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for cloud infrastructure and operational excellence
- Help define the long-term architecture and roadmap for our cloud and DevOps environment
- Work with compliance resources for SOC2, ISO, and FedRAMP certifications
- Within 3 months, you’ll…
- Develop a deep understanding of our AWS and Azure environments and identify the highest-priority infrastructure risks and opportunities
- Establish strong relationships with Engineering and Security
- Take ownership of critical infrastructure and operational processes
- Identify and eliminate meaningful sources of manual work and operational friction
- Improve reliability, observability, and deployment processes
- Begin implementing a clear roadmap for scaling our infrastructure as the company grows
Our take
Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.
Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.
Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing, paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this early-stage startup.
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Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
Company HQ
Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Gaurav Bharaj
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.
Ali Shahriyari
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.
Ben Colman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.
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