About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a high-ownership, hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer role at a fast-growing, AI-native consumer intelligence SaaS startup (11–50 employees) headquartered in New York City. The platform is trusted by enterprise-scale customers — including Fortune 500 retailers — for critical data and decision-making workflows. You'll own the infrastructure end-to-end: architecting, building, and maintaining the cloud systems that keep the platform secure, scalable, and highly reliable.

You'll work closely with backend and ML engineers, championing GitOps and infrastructure-as-code across the organization. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform / Terragrunt) on AWS - Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines; convert manual processes into automated, repeatable workflows - Own production reliability — set up observability stacks, define SLI/SLOs, and lead incident response - Implement and champion GitOps workflows for all infrastructure deployments - Build compliance-ready infrastructure (SOC 2, GDPR) with IAM best practices and secrets management - Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability at scale - Create developer tooling and documentation that accelerates engineering workflows across the team - Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and help guide overall infrastructure strategy WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Required - 5+ years owning infrastructure end-to-end in production environments (hands-on work within the last 2 years, not purely architectural) - Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS strongly preferred) - Proven experience building and managing AWS infrastructure for B2B SaaS products - Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in production - Broad DevOps scope: infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring — not just CI/CD - Experience at VC-backed startups or mid-sized technology companies - Currently resides in the greater NYC area Nice to Have - Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform and Terragrunt - Familiarity with Python and/or Bash scripting - Background in AI/ML platform infrastructure or high-volume data pipeline environments - Experience at companies such as Meltwater, Qualtrics, Medallia, NielsenIQ, Kantar, Talkwalker, or similar enterprise SaaS / consumer intelligence firms Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: $160,000 – $200,000 USD annually, depending on experience - Equity participation at a well-funded, early-stage startup - Opportunity to be a foundational infrastructure hire with significant technical influence LOCATION This is an on-site role based in New York City, NY. Candidates must currently reside in the greater NYC area.

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