DevSecOps Engineer at Raya

About Raya

Raya is seeking a passionate DevSecOps Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining robust, scalable infrastructure that empowers product engineering teams to innovate confidently. You will work with modern cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code technologies, contributing to the evolution of Raya's infrastructure foundation during a period of rapid growth.

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will drive technological advancements within Raya’s Infrastructure Platform. Leveraging best in class cloud technologies and container orchestration, your work will be crucial in delivering a reliable, secure, and scalable foundation for daily product team operations. Raya fosters a culture of learning and teamwork, providing opportunities for individuals to champion infrastructure solutions to complex challenges and achieve their full potential.

A great candidate will be enthusiastic about supporting infrastructure initiatives across multi-regional environments, Kubernetes orchestration, deployment automation, and observability. You will focus on performance optimization, designing infrastructure for maximum application efficiency and resource utilization. Enthusiasm for leveraging AI to enhance infrastructure workflows, automate complex tasks, and maximize the scale and impact of your work is highly valued. You will design infrastructure architecture in a scalable, evidence based manner, thoughtfully introducing improvements within established systems. Ultimately, you believe in Raya’s vision of enriching lives by fostering relationships through quality, in person interactions.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Leadership: Design and build significant new infrastructure components and platforms to support Raya's expanding needs.
• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Lead the Kubernetes strategy, designing and implementing container orchestration solutions optimized for various application workloads.
• Performance Optimization: Design and optimize infrastructure for peak application performance, focusing on memory management, resource allocation, network traffic optimization, and system efficiency.
• Reliability Engineering: Implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), monitoring, and observability solutions to ensure high reliability of the platform.
• Cloud Engineering: Apply in depth knowledge of AWS to design scalable, resilient architectures across multiple regions.
• Incident Response: Participate in on call rotations and lead complex infrastructure incident resolution and post incident analysis.
• System Evolution: Thoughtfully improve existing infrastructure through incremental enhancements while respecting operational constraints.
• Deployment Automation: Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies to enable faster, safer releases.
• AI-Enhanced Workflows: Integrate AI tools and capabilities into infrastructure workflows to automate complex tasks, enhance decision making, and maximize operational efficiency.
• Infrastructure Security: Collaborate with security teams to implement secure by design infrastructure.
• Cost Optimization: Design cost effective infrastructure solutions and implement optimization strategies.
• Team Mentorship: Contribute to engineering excellence by mentoring other infrastructure engineers.

Qualifications

• A BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Systems Administration, or a related technical field (professional experience can substitute for non engineering educational backgrounds).
• 6-8+ years of hands on experience with infrastructure engineering, with a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and Docker, with experience designing and managing production container orchestration environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in AWS and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible).
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization of both infrastructure and applications.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go, Ruby).
• Experience working with and incrementally improving established infrastructure environments.
• Strong collaborative instincts, emphasizing open communication, transparency, and cross team interaction.

Desired Qualifications

• Background in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance infrastructure workflows, automate tasks, and improve operational efficiency.
• Knowledge of database administration and optimization (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with multi-regional/global infrastructure deployment and operations.
• Track record of successfully modernizing legacy infrastructure components.
• Strong understanding of Node.js performance characteristics and experience optimizing infrastructure for Node.js workloads, including memory management, CPU utilization patterns, and scaling considerations.
• Proficiency in application profiling and performance analysis tools.
• Experience with network infrastructure and security.
• Experience with infrastructure security and compliance controls.
• Understanding of cost optimization strategies in cloud environments.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
• Experience with other cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) in addition to AWS.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery planning and implementation.

What Sets You Apart

• Reliability Focus: You are passionate about building systems that are resilient, self healing, and maintainable.
• Performance Optimizer: You have a keen eye for identifying bottlenecks and optimizing system performance at all levels of the stack.
• Problem Solver: You excel at diagnosing complex infrastructure issues and implementing effective solutions.
• Application-Aware Infrastructure: You design infrastructure that maximizes application performance by understanding how applications behave in production, with particular expertise in Node.js workloads.
• Pragmatic Innovator: You can balance working within existing constraints while strategically introducing improvements where they will have the most impact.
• Context Builder: You take time to understand existing systems and historical decisions before proposing changes, appreciating the journey that led to the current state.
• Infrastructure Vision: You think beyond immediate needs to design infrastructure that can scale and evolve with Raya's growth.
• Automation Mindset: You are driven to automate manual processes and eliminate operational toil.
• AI-Powered Efficiency: You are excited about leveraging AI to amplify your capabilities, automate complex workflows, and achieve greater scale and impact in your infrastructure work.
• Impact-driven: You prioritize infrastructure initiatives that maximize impact, aligning with Raya's overarching goals.
• Growth-oriented: You possess a perpetual learner's mindset, open to challenges, and always seeking opportunities to expand your technical horizons.

Benefits

Raya offers comprehensive medical and dental coverage, a $50 daily food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and an annual $1,000 travel budget for employees to visit a new place, reflecting the company’s values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity.