Senior DevOps Engineer
Riskified · Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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- On site
- Full-time
- $150,000 / year
- Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Job highlights
- Own cloud-native infrastructure for real-time decisions.
- Design, build, and manage AWS infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Enhance system visibility with advanced observability.
- Automate security controls and compliance.
About the role
About Us
Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Booking.com, Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.
We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.
About the Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll join a high-impact R&D team and own the infrastructure that powers Riskified’s real-time decisions. You’ll tackle challenges of architecture, scale, and reliability by designing, building, and operating cloud-native systems, and by extending the tooling that enables fast, safe delivery at scale.
At Riskified, we review millions of transactions daily and make sub-second decisions that sit in the heart of our customers’ critical business flow. We collect and analyze terabytes of textual, behavioral, social, geographical, and other data, using machine learning algorithms to power one of the world’s leading fraud-prevention platforms.
We believe great engineers and tight collaboration are the keys to scale and innovation. Our team is highly innovative and quick to adopt cutting-edge technologies (for example, EKS at scale, Karpenter, Istio, Argo CD, Graviton, Kyverno, advanced observability, and Cloudflare edge patterns).
What You'll Be Doing
- Design, build and manage our development and production cloud-native infrastructure in AWS
- Establish and evolve standards for microservices (IaC modules, Helm charts, policies)
- Build and maintain our product release workflow and continuous integration/delivery systems
- Continuously improve Riskified’s visibility into its systems and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics, and log analytics, analysis
- Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
- Play a key role in product planning and execution
- Develop internal tools that remove friction and boost developer productivity.
- Continuously evaluate and introduce new technologies to improve performance, reliability, and developer velocity
Qualifications
- At least 5 years prior experience as a SRE/DevOps
- Deep cloud experience (preferably AWS) and strong Infrastructure as Code skills
- Must have cloud-native proficiency, including Kubernetes in production, familiarity with a service mesh (for example, Istio or Linkerd), and provisioning tools (for example, Karpenter)
- Observability expertise with modern monitoring and log analytics
- At least 1 year of programming experience or the ability to demonstrate strong programming proficiency
- Experience with Build/Deploy/Continuous Integration tools
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
- Experience in Go or Node.js (huge advantage).
- History of open-source involvement (issues, pull requests, talks, or meetups) (advantage).
Life at Riskified
We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.
Our Tel-Aviv team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office work. We have recently moved to our new space in Tel Aviv - check it out here!
Some of our Tel Aviv Benefits & Perks:
- Equity for all employees, Keren Hishtalmut, pension
- Private medical insurance, extra time off for parents and caregivers
- Commuter and parking benefits
- Team events, fully-stocked kitchen, lunch stipend, happy hours, yoga, pilates, functional training, basketball, soccer
- Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact
- Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
- Awesome Riskified gifts and swag!
In the News
- Geektime: Riskified Goes Public
- Walla!: Happy Hour at the Riskified Offices
- Geektime Insider: A look at Riskified Tel Aviv
- Globes: Riskified to contribute the highest amount up to date to Tmura
- Globes: Riskified is among Israel’s fastest growing companies
- TechCrunch: Riskified Prevents Fraud on Your Favorite E-commerce Site
Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Key skills/competency
- DevOps
- SRE
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Security
- Go/Node.js
Skills & topics
- DevOps Engineer
- SRE
- Cloud Engineering
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- CI/CD
- System Administration
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Software Engineer
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC skills.
- Showcase programming skills: Emphasize your Go or Node.js experience and any open-source contributions.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Be ready to discuss cloud-native technologies and system design.
- Research Riskified's culture: Understand their commitment to innovation and collaboration in e-commerce risk management.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What are the key responsibilities for a Senior DevOps Engineer at Riskified?
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Riskified, you will design, build, and manage cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, establish microservice standards, maintain CI/CD systems, enhance system observability, automate security and compliance, and develop internal tools to boost developer productivity. You will play a key role in product planning and execution, continuously evaluating new technologies to improve performance and reliability.
- What qualifications are essential for this Senior DevOps Engineer role?
- Essential qualifications include at least 5 years of experience as an SRE/DevOps engineer, deep AWS cloud expertise with strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills, and cloud-native proficiency including production Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and provisioning tools (Karpenter). Observability expertise, at least 1 year of programming experience, and experience with CI/CD tools are also required.
- What are the advantages of working as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Riskified?
- Working at Riskified offers the chance to own critical infrastructure for a leading fraud-prevention platform, tackle complex architectural challenges, and work with cutting-edge technologies like EKS at scale, Istio, and Karpenter. The company fosters a collaborative environment with abundant opportunities for impact and professional development, including access to Udemy courses and global onboarding. Employees also benefit from equity, comprehensive insurance, and various perks like commuter benefits and team events.
- What kind of technical challenges can I expect as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Riskified?
- You can expect to work on challenges related to architecture, scale, and reliability for a platform that processes millions of transactions daily and makes sub-second decisions. This includes designing and operating cloud-native systems, extending tooling for fast and safe delivery, implementing advanced monitoring and log analytics, and automating security controls and compliance validation within a fast-paced, innovative environment.
- Does Riskified encourage the use of new technologies for their Senior DevOps Engineers?
- Yes, Riskified is described as being quick to adopt cutting-edge technologies. The job description specifically mentions EKS at scale, Karpenter, Istio, Argo CD, Graviton, Kyverno, advanced observability, and Cloudflare edge patterns as examples of technologies they utilize. This indicates a strong emphasis on staying current and embracing innovation in their tech stack.