Dune Security is replacing legacy phishing simulations and security awareness training tools with a unified, automated User Adaptive Risk Management platform. It delivers User Adaptive Testing,…
Dune Security is replacing legacy phishing simulations and security awareness training tools with a unified, automated User Adaptive Risk Management platform. It delivers User Adaptive Testing,…
What they do: AI-powered User Adaptive Risk Management platform for personalized phishing testing, training, and remediation
Founded: 2023
HQ: New York City, United States
Founders: David DellaPelle (CEO), Michael Waite (CTO)
Recent funding: Seed round announced Jan 29, 2025 (lead: Toba Capital)
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Human/user-layer cybersecurity risk and security awareness effectiveness
Founded
2023
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Funding Track Record
Pre-Seed- 2023-09-29
Pre-Seed- 2024-04-22
Seed- 2025-01-29
Seed round announced Jan 29, 2025
Investor Signal
“Backed by investors including Toba Capital, Craft Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Antler, Firestreak Ventures, and Alumni Ventures”
Founders
What we do
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DevOps Engineer
HybridNew York, NY, US
Hybrid • New York, NY, US
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Company Overview
Dune Security is the world’s first User Adaptive Risk Management solution. Powered by AI, we quantify employee risk with comprehensive data and automatically deliver user-adaptive training and intervention. For higher-risk users, our platform integrates seamlessly with the broader security stack to dynamically implement controls. Backed by Craft Ventures, Toba Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, and Antler, we empower CISOs to proactively manage user risk - the leading cause of cybersecurity breaches - and build safer, more resilient organizations.
Role Overview
Dune Security is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and operate highly reliable, scalable, production-grade infrastructure and developer platforms. This role carries direct responsibility for availability, deployment safety, incident response, platform design, and long-term infrastructure quality for customer-facing web systems.
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
Qualifications & Experience
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.
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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
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)