Reality Defender · 10 hours ago
DevOps Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $250K/yr
4+ years expReality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company focused on detecting deepfakes and AI-generated media. As a DevOps Engineer, you will design and operate the infrastructure for their production AI detection platform, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Fraud DetectionIdentity ManagementNetwork Security
Responsibilities
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 productionize 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
Qualification
Required
4+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred)
Strong production experience with Kubernetes & container orchestration
Strong production experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
Strong production experience with Infrastructure as Code
Strong production experience with 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
Benefits
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
Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
Commuter benefits
Remote Fridays
Happy Hours and other local events
Company
Reality Defender
Reality Defender is a deep-fake and AI-generated media detection platform that helps to detect AI-generated and manipulated content.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (2)
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2023 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$48.5MKey Investors
Illuminate FinancialIntel IgniteDCVC
2025-04-03Series Unknown
2024-10-22Series A· $33M
2024-04-02Non Equity Assistance
Leadership Team
Ali Shahriyari
Co-Founder & Advisor
Brian Levin
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
Recent News
2026-01-07
2025-12-16
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