DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

Dune Security is the world’s first User Adaptive Risk Management solution. Powered by AI, we quantify employee risk with comprehensive data and automatically deliver user-adaptive training and intervention. For higher-risk users, our platform integrates seamlessly with the broader security stack to dynamically implement controls. Backed by Craft Ventures, Toba Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, and Antler, we empower CISOs to proactively manage user risk - the leading cause of cybersecurity breaches - and build safer, more resilient organizations.

Role Overview

Dune Security is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and operate highly reliable, scalable, production-grade infrastructure and developer platforms. This role carries direct responsibility for availability, deployment safety, incident response, platform design, and long-term infrastructure quality for customer-facing web systems.

The ideal candidate has operated web platforms at or above 99.999% availability, responds decisively to live production incidents, and proactively designs and improves systems to reduce operational risk and accumulated technical debt.

Key Responsibilities

• Own production reliability for customer-facing web platforms
  , with demonstrated experience meeting (e.g. 99.9%+ uptime SLOs)
• Serve as an on-call escalation owner
  for P0/P1 incidents, driving rapid mitigation and high-quality post-incident analysis
• Proactively design resilient systems
  to eliminate classes of failures before they occur
• Own CI/CD platforms
  (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) enabling frequent, low-risk production deployments
• Maintain deployment safety
  , including low change-failure rates and zero manual production changes outside emergency procedures
• Build and operate infrastructure via infrastructure-as-code
  (Terraform), minimizing manual toil
• Continuously reduce infrastructure and platform technical debt
  , including refactoring brittle systems, improving automation coverage, and simplifying operational complexity
• Operate and scale identity and access platforms
  (e.g., Keycloak), enforcing MFA and production access hygiene
• Design and operate production compute environments
  spanning
  CPU, GPU, TPU, and FPGA workloads
• Design and operate AI-capable infrastructure
  , including model serving and batch or real-time inference pipelines
• Partner with application engineers
  to improve service operability, resilience, deployment safety, and long-term maintainability
• Document systems, incidents, and decisions clearly
  using Jira and Confluence

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of DevOps or SRE experience
  owning real production systems, including customer-facing web platforms operating at
  ≥99.999% uptime
• Proven ownership of
  incident response, MTTR, and reliability metrics
  , with hands-on responsibility during live P0/P1 incidents
• Strong experience designing and operating
  AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple environments
  , using
  Terraform, Docker
  , and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Deep CI/CD and release engineering experience with
  GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins
  , including safe, automated production deployments
• Advanced
  Linux systems administration
  and Linux internals; kernel-level tuning and performance optimization preferred
• Strong programming experience in
  Go, Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript
  , including infrastructure tooling and support for
  React and Next.js–based web platforms
• Experience designing and operating
  AI and data platforms in production
  , including
  Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake
  , and AI deployment environments
• Experience operating and scaling
  heterogeneous compute environments
  , including
  CPU, GPU, TPU, FPGA, and QPU workloads
• Experience operating and scaling
  MongoDB Atlas
  in production environments
• Strong experience with
  observability and analytics tooling
  , including
  Grafana, Splunk, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kibana
  , and
  OpenTelemetry
  , and using telemetry directly during incident response
• Experience operating
  identity and access platforms
  such as
  Keycloak
  , and working with cloud security and posture tooling including
  AWS GuardDuty and Wiz
• Hands-on experience using
  Jira
  for incident and work tracking and
  Confluence
  for operational and architectural documentation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (required)
• Cloud or DevOps certifications preferred

What You’ll Bring

We are looking for a proactive and security-minded engineer who thrives on taking ownership of critical infrastructure. You are a natural problem-solver, driven to find the right balance between robust security, system reliability, and developer efficiency. You excel in a collaborative environment where you can share your expertise and learn from your peers, and you are motivated by the challenge of building and defending complex systems. Your ability to think critically under pressure, combined with a deep sense of responsibility and a commitment to continuous improvement, will make you a vital part of our team as we work together to build a world-class security program.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary:
  A competitive base salary ranging from
  $140,000 to $180,000
  , depending on experience and scope.
• Equity:
  A meaningful stock option grant, providing you with a significant ownership stake in our future success.
• Benefits:
  A comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional growth, including: (1) Medical, dental, and vision insurance, (2) Unlimited PTO, (3) Commuter benefits, (4) Ongoing professional development and educational support

Exact compensation will be based on experience, skills, and alignment with Dune’s compensation philosophy.

Additional Details:

• Location: NYC. Candidates must reside within a commutable distance of our Tribeca, Manhattan office.
• Hours: Full time. 4 days in office.

Joining Dune Security means embracing a unique opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity. If you're passionate about innovation and ready to take on significant responsibility, we encourage you to apply.

Note: Dune Security is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.