The ideal candidate has operated web platforms at or above 99.999% availability, responds decisively to live production incidents, and proactively designs and improves systems to reduce operational risk and accumulated technical debt.

Key Responsibilities

• Own production reliability for customer-facing web platforms , with demonstrated experience meeting (e.g. 99.9%+ uptime SLOs)
• Serve as an on-call escalation owner for P0/P1 incidents, driving rapid mitigation and high-quality post-incident analysis
• Proactively design resilient systems to eliminate classes of failures before they occur
• Own CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) enabling frequent, low-risk production deployments
• Maintain deployment safety , including low change-failure rates and zero manual production changes outside emergency procedures
• Build and operate infrastructure via infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), minimizing manual toil
• Continuously reduce infrastructure and platform technical debt , including refactoring brittle systems, improving automation coverage, and simplifying operational complexity
• Operate and scale identity and access platforms (e.g., Keycloak), enforcing MFA and production access hygiene
• Design and operate production compute environments spanning CPU, GPU, TPU, and FPGA workloads
• Design and operate AI-capable infrastructure , including model serving and batch or real-time inference pipelines
• Partner with application engineers to improve service operability, resilience, deployment safety, and long-term maintainability
• Document systems, incidents, and decisions clearly using Jira and Confluence

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of DevOps or SRE experience owning real production systems, including customer-facing web platforms operating at ≥99.999% uptime
• Proven ownership of incident response, MTTR, and reliability metrics , with hands-on responsibility during live P0/P1 incidents
• Strong experience designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple environments , using Terraform, Docker , and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Deep CI/CD and release engineering experience with GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins , including safe, automated production deployments
• Advanced Linux systems administration and Linux internals; kernel-level tuning and performance optimization preferred
• Strong programming experience in Go, Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript , including infrastructure tooling and support for React and Next.js–based web platforms
• Experience designing and operating AI and data platforms in production , including Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake , and AI deployment environments
• Experience operating and scaling heterogeneous compute environments , including CPU, GPU, TPU, FPGA, and QPU workloads
• Experience operating and scaling MongoDB Atlas in production environments
• Strong experience with observability and analytics tooling , including Grafana, Splunk, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kibana , and OpenTelemetry , and using telemetry directly during incident response
• Experience operating identity and access platforms such as Keycloak , and working with cloud security and posture tooling including AWS GuardDuty and Wiz
• Hands-on experience using Jira for incident and work tracking and Confluence for operational and architectural documentation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (required)
• Cloud or DevOps certifications preferred

What You’ll Bring

We are looking for a proactive and security-minded engineer who thrives on taking ownership of critical infrastructure. You are a natural problem-solver, driven to find the right balance between robust security, system reliability, and developer efficiency. You excel in a collaborative environment where you can share your expertise and learn from your peers, and you are motivated by the challenge of building and defending complex systems. Your ability to think critically under pressure, combined with a deep sense of responsibility and a commitment to continuous improvement, will make you a vital part of our team as we work together to build a world-class security program.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: A competitive base salary ranging from $140,000 to $180,000 , depending on experience and scope.
• Equity: A meaningful stock option grant, providing you with a significant ownership stake in our future success.
• Benefits: A comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional growth, including: (1) Medical, dental, and vision insurance, (2) Unlimited PTO, (3) Commuter benefits, (4) Ongoing professional development and educational support

Exact compensation will be based on experience, skills, and alignment with Dune’s compensation philosophy.

Additional Details:

• Location: NYC. Candidates must reside within a commutable distance of our Tribeca, Manhattan office.
• Hours: Full time. 4 days in office.

Joining Dune Security means embracing a unique opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity. If you're passionate about innovation and ready to take on significant responsibility, we encourage you to apply.

Note: Dune Security is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.