DevOps Engineer

Who we are.

Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.

Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.

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As a Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll design and operate the infrastructure that powers our production AI detection platform. You will own cloud architecture, reliability, deployment pipelines, and security posture—ensuring our systems can scale to global demand while remaining resilient, observable, and cost-efficient. This is a hands-on role with real ownership over platform decisions and technical direction.

Responsibilities include:

• Architect and operate high-availability, low-latency cloud infrastructure for real-time AI inference services.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, safe iteration across backend and ML systems.

• Own production reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.

• Lead infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).

• Partner closely with backend and ML engineers to product ionize new models and services.

• Harden our systems for security, compliance, and data protection.

• Optimize cost, performance, and scalability as usage grows.

• Establish best practices around observability, deployment strategies, and disaster recovery.

• 4+ years experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.

• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred).

• Strong production experience with:

  • Kubernetes & container orchestration

  • CI/CD systems (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, etc.)

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • Linux & networking fundamentals

• Proven track record supporting distributed, high-traffic systems.

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).

• Strong security mindset and experience with secrets management, IAM, and network isolation.

Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

• Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents

• Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents

• Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees

• FSA/HSA and 401k programs

• Equity compensation

• 20 days of PTO per year

• 12 weeks of Parental Leave

• Learning and Development budget

• Monthly wellness benefits

• Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

• Daily in-office lunch through Uber Eats

• Commuter benefits

• Remote Fridays

• Happy Hours and other local events