Devops Engineer

Localize is seeking a Senior Devops / Platform Engineer to join our growing product engineering team. As Localize expands, the scalability, reliability, and performance of our infrastructure and applications have become paramount. As a critical member of our product engineering team, you will own and improve Localize’s technical infrastructure, databases, and platform tooling, including monitoring, alerting, and maintenance. Your scope extends beyond delivering product tickets: you will strengthen the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and be responsible for the scalability, stability, reliability, performance, and security of the Localize platform.

You will partner closely with leadership and fellow product engineers to translate business priorities and customer needs into execution, remove obstacles, and make thoughtful tradeoffs that keep the team moving forward. Like every product engineer at Localize, you are expected to be customer-obsessed and business-aligned: connect technical decisions to customer trust, product quality, and business outcomes. This role reports directly to the Engineering Manager., * Oversee and manage Localize’s infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare.

• Ensure the scalability, reliability, performance, and security of Localize’s data stores, specifically Redis and MongoDB, through effective configuration, monitoring, query optimization, and backup management.
• Own and improve deployment ~~process.~~and release processes, emphasizing automation, repeatability, safe rollouts, and reliable rollback procedures.
• Partner with product engineers to improve the full SDLC, including development environments, CI/CD, automated quality and security checks, and release readiness. Treat this work as a core engineering responsibility alongside product delivery.
• Take a leading role in infrastructure security and SOC 2 Type II compliance, partnering with engineering leadership and compliance stakeholders to operate and improve technical controls, maintain audit-ready evidence, support audits, and remediate findings. Responsibilities include access management, vulnerability management, change management, logging, and backup and recovery controls.
• Help lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews, translating lessons into improvements that protect customers and reduce recurring operational risk.
• Prioritize infrastructure and SDLC improvements based on customer impact, business priorities, and risk. Communicate tradeoffs clearly and assess results through reliability, delivery speed, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Own and improve monitoring of uptime and performance using tools such as Datadog, Clickhouse, HyperDX, and more
• Identify, plan and implement improvements and optimizations for infrastructure regarding cost, reliability, scalability.
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation and maps of our infrastructure and dependencies.
• Actively learn new technologies and systems to improve the efficiency and capabilities of our infrastructure.

Technologies

Experience with the specific technologies below is a plus unless listed under Must-Have Skills. Security and compliance, including support for SOC 2 Type II, are core responsibilities of this role-not optional areas of involvement.

• AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, Cloudfront, EC2, Elasticache, Route 53, VPS
• Platforms: Kubernetes, AWS Beanstalk, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
• Languages: Terragrunt, OpenTofu, Terraform
• Monitoring: Clickhouse, Datadog, HyperDX, Grafana
• Security & Compliance: SOC2 Type II
• Cloudflare DNS, Workers, Zero Trust (WARP)
• Business Intelligence: Stitch, Metabase, Snowflake
• Application Technology: MongoDB (Atlas + Cloud Manager), Typescript, React, Design and operate scalable cloud, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, automation, observability, security, and reliability solutions. Lead complex troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, data platform integration, and infrastructure improvements. Mentor engineers, establish technical standards, reduce technical debt, and partner cross-functionally to improve developer productivity, platform resilience, and release stability. Participate in rotating on-call coverage for production systems. Top Skills: Ci/CdCloud InfrastructureContainer SecurityData PipelinesDisaster RecoveryDora MetricsGoldengateIamInfrastructure As CodeJenkinsKubernetesLinuxNetworkingObservabilityOciOkeSoc 2 Inspira Financial, Leads DevOps and platform engineering initiatives by designing CI/CD pipelines, automating cloud infrastructure, supporting Kubernetes deployments, integrating security and observability controls, and improving developer productivity. Partners across engineering, security, SRE, and architecture teams to establish standardized delivery practices, self-service platforms, engineering metrics, and scalable cloud-native solutions. Mentors engineers and drives technical standards across multiple teams. Top Skills: AWSAzureAzure DevopsBashCi/CdDockerDora MetricsGitopsInfrastructure As CodeKubernetesObservabilityPowershellPythonTerraform Worth, Build and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD automation. Own cloud networking, IAM, secrets, observability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and platform resilience. Improve deployment practices, eliminate manual toil, lead incident response and postmortems, modernize legacy infrastructure, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, reproducible systems. The role is remote with travel to Orlando at least twice annually. Top Skills: Amazon EksAmazon MskAmazon RdsAmazon S3Amazon VpcArgocdAWSAws IamAws LambdaBashDatadogGithub ActionsJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesPostgresPythonRedisTerraformTypescript

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• 5+ years engineering experience. At least 4 years of experience in a Devops role.
• Expertise in managing and optimizing infrastructure in AWS.
• Redis and MongoDB, including configuration, monitoring, optimization, and management of backups.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools OpenTofu and Terragrunt
• Experience with manual or automated deployment & release management.
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes and tools.
• Hands-on experience securing production infrastructure, including least-privilege access controls, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and security monitoring.
• Ability to translate security and compliance requirements into repeatable engineering practices, maintain evidence of control operation, and support SOC 2 Type II audit readiness and remediation.
• Experience partnering with product engineers to improve the SDLC and balance feature delivery with reliability, security, and developer productivity.
• A customer-obsessed, business-aligned approach: understand how infrastructure decisions affect customers, prioritize work by impact, and explain technical tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Skills in assessing and optimizing performance of infrastructure and applications for improved performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Proficiency in command line scripting
• Disaster Recovery Planning including data integrity and availability in case of emergencies.
• Experience with APM and logging tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Sentry, or Kibana.

Nice-to-Have Skills or Experience:

• Product Engineering languages and frameworks such as Typescript, React, Mongoose, LESS, and more
• Applied LLM engineering:
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into production systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar)
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, context engineering, and token management
• Experience designing or implementing RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector search
• Familiarity with emerging LLM infrastructure patterns and protocols (e.g., MCP, tool/function calling, agents)
• Working in a fast-paced environment where you’re accountable for your work and you’re passionate in working with customers, Along with your resume, send us a cover letter that showcases your personality and tells us why we should hire you. Previous experience working in a remote position is a must.

Own and improve Localize’s AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure, databases, platform tooling, deployments, monitoring, security, and SDLC practices. Manage Redis and MongoDB reliability, optimize performance and costs, strengthen CI/CD, lead incident response, support SOC 2 Type II compliance, and maintain disaster recovery capabilities. Partner with product engineers and leadership to prioritize infrastructure improvements, communicate tradeoffs, and improve customer-facing reliability, security, and delivery speed. The summary above was generated by AI, You’ll be joining a close knit and talented team, with plenty of opportunity for professional growth. We offer compensation + benefits that are on par with large companies, while also placing a high value on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• Competitive salary
• 401(k) plan + 4% matching
• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance
• Work anywhere in North America (we are 100% remote)
• New Macbook (or computer of your choice)
• Monthly stipend for home internet costs
• Generous PTO package, We are a team of ~30 people working fully remote. We offer competitive pay, a full benefits package, and a culture with an emphasis on work + life balance.

The Localize platform is used by 700+ companies to automate the translation of their web and mobile applications and bring their products & services to new markets at record speed. We support organizations like The Bay Area Toll Authority in translating their payments website, Baptist Health in making their healthcare site multilingual, and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in offering their content in several languages. To see our product in action, click any of those links and use the website’s language switcher to switch from English to another language.