Senior DevOps Engineer

Why join us NOW

APIs form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot innovate rapidly. Salt Security has delivered the only patented solution to identify and prevent API attacks, using Big Data and AI to thwart this top threat to businesses today.

We are backed by the best investors in the world (YCombinator, S-Capital, Tenaya, Sequoia, Capital G, and more) and recently achieved a $1.4B valuation.

We have an amazing customer base - https://salt.security/customers and we’re at a unique sweet spot in a startup’s lifecycle - the demand from customers is huge, yet our team is small and super high quality.

Now is the opportunity to be a partner in this growth and help shape the future of Salt Security as the world’s leader in API security!

About the position

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer - who will be a vital member of Salt Security's esteemed DevOps engineering team. Your primary responsibility will be to champion and oversee the development platforms and lifecycle processes from inception to execution. Leveraging your expertise, you'll contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure, built atop advanced technologies, to accommodate our rapid scaling.

Our team is very independent and always looking for ways to improve processes.

Salt’s engineers are experienced, highly motivated, independent, fast learners, great problem solvers, and super fun to work with.

To learn more about Salt Security’s R&D -https://tinyurl.com/salt-rnd

Who are you?

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer on a high-scale distributed system, working in a Kubernetes environment.
• Extensive experience with designing and implementing application and infrastructure monitoring in multi-tenant environments.
• Hands-on experience in defining and implementing CI/CD processes.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, including its components and main flows.
• Extensive experience in writing automation and maintenance scripts using Python, bash.
• Extensive experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Kustomize).
• Highly motivated engineer with a passion for improving infrastructure and delivery processes, with a self-learning ability.
• A team player who’s able to cooperate with different teams and roles.

Preferred (but not mandatory) experience

• B.Sc in computer science or any related field.
• Experience in AWS services, including EC2, S3, CloudFront, and route 53.
• Hands-on experience in the following technologies: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, SingleStore, Grafana, and Hashicorp Vault.
• Experience in DevEx development and implementation.