Senior DevOps Engineer (NYC)

Description:

Zafran is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our US-only production environment end-to-end and lead our growing US DevOps presence. This is a hands-on role combining infrastructure ownership, deployment automation, and close collaboration with engineering on application-level investigations. You will be our first DevOps hire on the ground in the US, working alongside our Tel Aviv DevOps team while establishing the US site.

The ideal candidate has a strong development background, thinks like an engineer, and is comfortable moving between Terraform, Kubernetes manifests, and application code to debug a production issue.

About Zafran:

Our Mission: To stop the exploitations of vulnerabilities, everywhere.

What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 90% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and uses your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 10% most likely to be exploited.

Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations.

We’re serious about our mission- so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way!

What you will do

• Own the prod-us-only environment end-to-end: infrastructure deployment, maintenance, scaling, and reliability
• Lead and grow the US-based DevOps as the site expands
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let developers ship safely and quickly
• Partner with engineering on investigations into application errors
• Operate and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure availability and performance; lead production incident response
• Coordinate with the Tel Aviv DevOps team on shared platform decisions and standards

Requirements:

• Must be located in the US, with a strong preference for the New York area; US remote considered- Eastern Time Zone required
• Prior experience leading or mentoring a small team
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status required due to access restrictions for a U.S.-only environment.
• 5+ years of DevOps / SRE / platform engineering experience
• Strong development background in Go, Python, or similar; comfortable reading and contributing to application code
• Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, and data services
• Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience in production
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform / Terragrunt
• CI/CD pipeline design with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or similar
• Hands-on with Datadog or equivalent
• Experience with disaster recovery and high-availability architectures
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across the full stack

Nice to have:

• Experience working across distributed teams and time zones
• Relevant certifications

At Zafran, people matter! We provide a robust benefits program that includes flexible PTO, health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision), a monthly stipend for phone and internet, 401k, flexible spending account, and a home office stipend when joining!

We also provide access to frontier AI models, including Claude, so every employee can work smarter, move faster, and build an AI-first career from day one.

At Zafran, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe the best teams are built by people who think differently, come from all kinds of backgrounds, and aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. We welcome everyone across race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, and veteran status, because what matters most is what you bring to the table.

If you’re curious, fun, and someone who gets things done, we’d love to meet you