Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Noetica; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in legal and financial technology seeks a Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer to architect next-generation infrastructure for a best-in-class legal benchmarking platform. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure security, reliability, and efficiency while optimizing cloud costs and performance in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Hybrid in-office schedule

401(k) retirement plan

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company offsites

Wellhub (Gympass) fitness membership

Commuter benefits

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional DevOps/SRE/platform engineering experience.
• Direct experience building and maintaining single-tenant infrastructure.
• Strong experience designing effective CI/CD systems.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure with security and data privacy as foundational principles.
• Design and build Terraform code that's clean and well-documented.
• Extend and create reliable monitoring and deployment systems.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD systems

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Job description

About Noetica

Noetica is solving critical NLP problems at the heart of the trillion-dollar capital markets ecosystem with an in-house machine learning platform and decades of ML PhD expertise. Founded in 2022 and based in New York, our high-caliber team is dedicated to bringing innovation and efficiency to legal and financial industries.

We count many of the top law firms in the world among our customers.

To date we have raised ~$30M with our last round (Series A) led by Lightspeed.

We're fortunate to have been covered by Matt Levine, Bloomberg Law, and Business Insider, amongst others, and named a top AI company 2024 and 2025 by Business Insider, CB Insights, and others.

The Opportunity

The global capital markets are among the largest markets in the world valued at $50T+ and growing. Transactions in these markets are complex. Critical, nuanced legal terms are woven into lengthy documents. These documents must be digested and analyzed by many different parties over the course of a single transaction and multiple decisions are made based on the terms laid out and quantitative and qualitative attributes within. This fundamental need plus a booming market drives enormous demand for precise extraction and benchmarking of legal terms.

Why We Need You

As a Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer at Noetica, you'll be a key architect and creator of our next generation of infrastructure - a single-tenant system powering a best-in-class legal benchmarking platform and the engineering and research teams building it. You will collaborate with a talented, cross-functional team of ML PhDs, legal SMEs, data, security, and product engineers, among others. Without your specialized expertise, the team risks slower, riskier deployments, performance bottlenecks, and complexity overload as demand for our data-intensive product suite multiplies. Your role directly impacts our ability to safely and effectively ship critical features by laying a secure and reliable foundation of orchestration, monitoring, and automation.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Build infrastructure with security and data privacy as foundational principles, not afterthoughts

• Develop CI systems that are reliable and modular, making it easy for all engineers to contribute confidently

• Design and build Terraform code that's clean, well-documented, and empowers engineering teams to self-serve their infrastructure needs

• Extend and create reliable monitoring and deployment systems that automate releases safely and reduce the risk of production incidents

• Simplify complex systems into more manageable solutions that are easier to understand and maintain

• Optimize cloud costs through smart autoscaling and efficient resource orchestration based on actual workload patterns

• Work with security engineers to implement access controls that protect our systems while still allowing engineers to be productive

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

• 6+ years of professional DevOps/SRE/platform engineering experience

• Proficiency with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform

• Direct experience building and maintaining single-tenant infrastructure

• Strong experience designing effective CI/CD systems

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• A self-starting, problem-solving approach biased towards action and scope minimization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting across isolated environments

• Experience optimizing infrastructure cost, performance, and resource utilization in data-intensive environments

• Strong security background or experience working closely with security teams

• Experience with disaster recovery exercises and planning

• Interest in language, law, finance, or economics

• Thrive in a high-leverage, fast-paced environment

Compensation

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is $162,000—$210,000 USD. You will also be entitled to receive a significant early stage equity package and benefits. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset.

Benefits

We offer numerous employee benefits, including:

• Hybrid in-office schedule

• Amazing office location next to Bryant Park/Grand Central

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Wellhub (Gympass) fitness membership

• Unlimited PTO

• Unlimited sick days

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Company offsites

• Commuter benefits

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer. We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We take care of each other to create an inclusive work environment where we love to come to work every day. We'd be happy to provide reasonable accommodations to help you apply—just email us at [e-mail]. We hope you can join us.