Senior DevOps Engineer (NYC)

About the role

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: In a world where AI-enabled attackers weaponize vulnerabilities within minutes, the old scan-and-patch-everything model no longer holds. Zafran's Exposure Graph continuously maps every vulnerability across your hybrid environment, chains exploitability through real attack paths and proves 90% of "critical" vulnerabilities can't actually reach you. It then neutralizes the real 10% using your compensating controls and safely remediates only where it matters.

Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, 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