Senior DevOps Engineer

About Reality Defender

Reality Defender provides accurate, multi-modal AI-generated media detection solutions to enable enterprises and governments to identify and prevent fraud, disinformation, and harmful deepfakes in real time. A Y Combinator graduate, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs alumni, and backed by DCVC , Reality Defender is the first company to pioneer multi-modal and multi-model detection of AI-generated media. Our web app and platform-agnostic API built by our research-forward team ensures that our customers can swiftly and securely mitigate fraud and cybersecurity risks in real time with a frictionless, robust solution.

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Why we stand out:

• Our best-in-class accuracy is derived from our sole, research-backed mission and use of multiple models per modality

• We can detect AI-generated fraud and disinformation in near- or real time across all modalities including audio, video, image, and text.

• Our platform is designed for ease of use , featuring a versatile API that integrates seamlessly with any system, an intuitive drag-and-drop web application for quick ad hoc analysis, and platform-agnostic real-time audio detection tailored for call center deployments.

• We’re privacy first , ensuring the strongest standards of compliance and keeping customer data away from the training of our detection models.

Role and Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable, secure AWS and cloud-agnostic infrastructure

• Maintain up-to-date documentation for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and disaster recovery processes

• Develop and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic or Datadog, and ensure high visibility into system health and performance metrics

• Monitor and optimize infrastructure costs

• Implement and enforce security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards such as SOC 2 or GDPR

• Set up and manage Kubernetes clusters to support containerized applications at scale using modern orchestration tools

• Manage our infrastructure with Terraform, partnering with feature teams to teach and share Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) best practices

• Lead incident management and disaster recovery planning, testing, and documentation. Collaborate with teams and establish department wide best practices around incident response playbooks

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and team members.

• Be a thought leader and help foster a culture of ownership by mentoring teams on leading DevOps principles and practices around resiliency, availability, and complex systems

About You

• BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps or SRE

• Deep experience with AWS cloud services including

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, including experience with deploying, managing, scaling, and orchestrating clusters

• Familiarity with our core tech stack of Docker, K8s, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Grafana

• Proficient in Python, Go, and/or Node.js,

• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and cloud-native services.

• Familiarity with automation and configuration management tools.