Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Frame; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Wellness budget (dental, vision)

relocation package

Apple hardware

Office in Los Angeles

Job summary

Frame, a compliance infrastructure company in Los Angeles, is hiring a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own FrameOS infrastructure and security. You will scale AWS-based cloud systems, implement secure CI/CD, and lead incident response and compliance automation, while collaborating with a distributed engineering team and auditors. This role balances reliability, security, and automation in a fintech-adjacent payments context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, infrastructure, or cloud security engineering experience
• Deep AWS experience (VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, ECR, EKS, KMS) and other core services
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK) and remediation ownership

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare, including provisioning, scaling, and cost management.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for fast, predictable, and safe deployments.
• Enable engineering with observability tooling and metrics stack (logging, tracing, alerting, on-call workflows).
• Operate Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration at scale.
• Own Frame's cloud security posture end to end (IAM, network segmentation, encryption).
• Design and optimize detection engineering pipelines and incident response workflows.

Skills

DevSecOps mindset

SRE practices

Python/Go/Ruby

Security incident response

Communicating with auditors

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Cloudflare

Job description

Frame is a compliance infrastructure company powering payments for complex, highly regulated industries. We enable businesses to move money with confidence by embedding compliance and payments into a single, intelligent platform. Our ambition is to become the infrastructure layer that regulated businesses rely on to operate, scale, and access services globally. How we build matters as much as what we build. Our values shape: how we work, make decisions, and support our merchants. We're headquartered in Los Angeles with a globally distributed team. We're committed to running an inclusive and accessible hiring process; if you need any adjustments along the way, let us know. Let's solve problems together.

The Role

We are hiring a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own the infrastructure that runs FrameOS and the security posture that protects it.

This is a new shape of role for us. As Frame scales, we are formalizing and expanding our dedicated Security and Infrastructure Engineering function to support our next stage of growth. Our merchant base sits in verticals that draw more fraud pressure and more regulatory attention than most companies our size will ever see.

You will own the systems that keep Frame fast and reliable, and you will own the controls that keep Frame defensible. Payment infrastructure has no room for surprises. Neither do we.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure and reliability

• Own cloud infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare, including provisioning, scaling, and cost management.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that make deployment fast, predictable, and safe.
• Enable engineering org with observability tooling and access to a reliable and robust metrics stack including: logging, tracing, alerting, and the on-call workflows that respond to it.
• Operate Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration at scale.

Security

• Own Frame's cloud security posture end to end: IAM and least privilege, account structure, network segmentation, encryption at rest and in transit, and separation of environments.
• Design and optimize detection engineering pipelines and incident response workflows to ensure low-noise, actionable security alerting.
• Lead security incident response, including the writeup and the follow through.
• Keep Frame up-to-date on compliance and coverage for OWASP identified threats and vulnerabilities identified from other key security organizations and communities.

Compliance engineering

You will not be our compliance department. Our compliance team owns the audit relationship, policy, and the control narrative. You own making the controls real.

• Translate SOC 2 and PCI DSS control requirements into automated technical controls, so evidence is a byproduct of how we operate.
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert behind our compliance team, answering the engineering-level questions that come out of audits, sponsor bank reviews, and partner security questionnaires.
• Report security posture and control maturity to engineering leadership on a regular cadence.

About You

• 5+ years of DevOps, infrastructure, or cloud security engineering experience
• Deep AWS experience, including VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, ECR, EKS, KMS, and other core AWS services.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK, and a willingness to ship your own remediation rather than file tickets for someone else.
• Container and orchestration security experience: image scanning, runtime hardening, admission controls.
• Hands-on experience with baseline pipeline security (SCA, secrets scanning, static analysis) and familiarity with broader AppSec concepts (DAST, policy-as-code, penetration testing).
• Strong scripting in Python, Ruby, or Go and enough fluency in our stack to review code and open pull requests, not just read scanner output.
• Mindset of enabling the rest of the team. We want to build a security, ops, and observability posture that is defined,hardened, and then shared and maintained by the team. Help the team help themselves. You're still the owner of dev ops and security, but other people in eng should eventually know how to interact and use tools and processes relevant to their jobs.

Experience in fintech, payments, or a regulated infrastructure environment is a strong plus, as is experience standing up a security function as the first dedicated hire. Familiarity with tokenization or vaulting architectures, detection engineering, or a sponsor bank model is also valued.

You Are Someone Who

Treats reliability and security as features, not backstops. You build infrastructure that other engineers can rely on without thinking about it, and you fix root causes rather than patching symptoms. You move quickly when systems are on fire, and methodically when they aren't. You can sequence work by real risk when you cannot do everything at once, and explain that sequencing to a founder, an auditor, and a bank partner in three different registers.

Our Values

The way we build at Frame is grounded in our values. Alongside our operating principles, they shape how we work and how we win. We want our people to feel empowered, supported, and challenged, and for that to translate into how we serve our customers.

• Start with Why - We ensure clarity of purpose before acting, building, or automating.
• Bias to Action - We take ownership, move quickly, and iterate rather than waiting for perfect answers.
• Rooted in Integrity - We do the right thing with data, money, partners, and decisions, especially when no one is watching.
• Be Decent. Be Direct. - We collaborate with respect, clarity, and care, even in disagreement.
• The Discerning Eye - We care deeply about quality, detail, and craft in how things look, feel, and work.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

• Can be remote, but our strong preference is Los Angeles. Our engineering team is already spread across several states, so you will not be the only one on a screen
• Unlimited PTO up to one week at a time with trust to manage your own time.
• A wellness budget covering dental, vision, and a free Equinox membership, plus team-led running and spin groups.
• Daily lunch and a fully stocked snack kitchen for anyone in our Los Angeles office, and a relocation package if you decide you want to be there.
• Apple hardware, Frame branded merch, and regular company off sites.