Senior Devops Engineer

Localize; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) plan + 4% matching

100% company-paid health, dental, and-

Job summary

Localize is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to own and optimize our AWS and Cloudflare footprint, ensuring scalable, secure data stores and smooth release processes. You will lead security controls, incident response, and SOC 2 Type II readiness while partnering with product teams to improve the SDLC and developer productivity.

You will mentor teams, implement IaC with OpenTofu and Terragrunt, and enhance observability with Datadog, Grafana, and other tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering experience with 4+ years in a DevOps role.
• Proven AWS infrastructure management and optimization.
• Experience with Redis and MongoDB including backups and monitoring.
• In-depth IaC experience with OpenTofu and Terragrunt.
• Experience with deployment and release management, manual or automated.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and tooling.
• Hands-on security practices for production infrastructure and vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to translate security/compliance needs into repeatable engineering practices for SOC 2 Type II readiness.
• Proven collaboration with product engineers to improve SDLC, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Customer-focused approach; communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience optimizing performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• CLI scripting proficiency.
• Disaster Recovery planning and data integrity.
• Familiarity with APM and logging tools (DataDog, New Relic, Sentry, Kibana).

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of data stores like Redis and MongoDB.
• Own and improve deployment and release processes with automation and safe rollouts.
• Partner with product engineers to improve the full SDLC, CI/CD, and release readiness.
• Lead infrastructure security and SOC 2 Type II compliance, maintaining audit-ready evidence.
• Help lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Prioritize improvements based on customer impact, risk, and cost-efficiency.
• Monitor uptime and performance using Datadog, Clickhouse, HyperDX, and more.
• Identify and implement infrastructure cost, reliability, and scalability improvements.
• Develop and maintain documentation of infrastructure and dependencies.
• Contribute to Developer Experience enhancements.
• Continuing learning of new technologies to boost infrastructure capabilities.

Skills

5+ years engineering experience

DevOps experience

AWS infrastructure

Redis

MongoDB backups

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Deployment & release management

CI/CD

Production security

SOC 2 Type II readiness

SDLC collaboration

Customer focused

Performance optimization

CLI scripting

Disaster Recovery

DataDog

New Relic

Sentry

Kibana

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS Beanstalk

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Clickhouse

Datadog

HyperDX

Grafana

SOC2 Type II

Cloudflare DNS

Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Zero Trust

Stitch

Metabase

Snowflake

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Cloud Manager

TypeScript

React

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Play an active role in Developer Experience enhancement.
• 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

Must‑Have Skills

• 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.

Benefits & Perks

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

About Localize

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.

Localize works by providing a code snippet (similar to the Google Analytics JavaScript snippet) that our customers add to their website/web app. The Localize snippet pulls in content from the page into the Localize dashboard where our customers log in to add translations and manage their content. Localize automatically deploys those translations to the customer’s production site, reducing development costs and accelerating time to market.

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.