DevSecOps Team Lead, Deel
+ Equity
Global payroll for employees and contractors
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Global payroll for employees and contractors
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make a change for people everywhere by empowering companies to eliminate hiring borders—so anyone, anywhere in the world, can access new opportunities.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years in Security, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles
- 2+ years in a leadership capacity (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager)
- Proven track record of scaling security practices in a cloud-native, high-growth environment
- Automation & IaC: Expert knowledge of Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Cloud & Containers: Deep understanding of Kubernetes security (RBAC, Network Policies, Admission Controllers) and cloud provider security services
- Tooling: Experience implementing and tuning SAST, DAST, SCA, and Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault) at scale
- Development: Proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript to build custom internal security tooling and integrations
- Pragmatism: Ability to balance "perfect security" with the "speed of business."
- Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical risks into business impact for executive stakeholders
What the job involves
- As the DevSecOps Team Lead, you will be the bridge between Security, Operations, and Engineering
- You will lead a team of specialized engineers to build, scale, and maintain a "Security-as-Code" ecosystem
- Your mission is to empower development teams to ship software faster and more securely by providing them with automated guardrails, self-service security tools, and expert architectural guidance
- Team Growth: Lead, mentor, and coach a team of DevSecOps engineers. Conduct performance reviews, manage career development paths, and foster a culture of high performance
- Roadmap Ownership: Define the DevSecOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, aligning security initiatives with broader business and engineering goals
- Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering and Product leads to ensure security requirements are baked into the Product Discovery phase
- Policy-as-Code: Lead the implementation of organizational guardrails using tools like OPA (Open Policy Agent) or Kyverno to ensure compliance is automated across all environments
- Secure Infrastructure: Oversee the design of secure cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes clusters, focusing on Zero Trust networking and identity-driven access
- Vendor & Budget Management: Evaluate, procure, and manage third-party security vendors and tools (e.g., Snyk, Wiz, Cloudflare), ensuring maximum ROI and technical fit
- Metric-Driven Security: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR), vulnerability burn-down rates, and false-positive ratios
- Incident Response: Serve as a technical escalation point for high-severity security incidents and lead the "Blameless Post-Mortem" process to drive systemic improvements
Our take
Remote work is growing exponentially, but global onboarding and payments haven't caught up. Deel is a payroll platform for remote teams that connects localized compliance and payments in one system of record, and automates everything.
Deel's goal is to offer every company that hires remote talents a one-stop-shop that makes onboarding, global compliance, and payments easy. The company's growth curve is one for the books, as it has been able to grow its customer base and team at an impressive rate. Its valuation follows suit, and now boasts being one of few businesses to hit $10+ billion just a year after hitting unicorn status.
With remote working here to stay, Deel has proven it got in at the right time, being well placed to capitalize on the trend of globally distributed teams. With such impressive backing, the company should be able to keep its success up as it moves into the future, bolstered by the release of new products and integrations that amplify the impact of its offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
277% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2025
$300m
SERIES E
May 2022
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $979m
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alex Bouaziz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Researcher in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Co-Founder and former CEO of Lifeslice.
Shuo Wang
(Co-Founder & CRO)Previously a Researcher at MIT Newman Lab. Co-Founder and former CTO of Aeris Cleantec.
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