the original API Security vendor pioneering the market as the first vendor in 2018. Since then we have exhibited hyper-growth in a number of customers, threats stopped, and revenue. We saw API security as the security battleground of the future years ago as APIs started to form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every modern app depends on APIs. Attackers realize APIs are the conduits to all sorts of valuable data and services within the year, APIs are predicted to be the number one application threat vector. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot rapidly innovate. has delivered the only patented solution to discover all APIs and their exposed data, stop API attackers, and provide remediation details for dev teams to write more secure APIs.
At Salt, were passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving diverse challenges.
Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!
Why join us NOW
APIs form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot innovate rapidly. =has delivered the only patented solution to identify and prevent API attacks, using Big Data and AI to thwart this top threat to businesses today.
We are backed by the best investors in the world (YCombinator, S-Capital, Tenaya, Sequoia, Capital G, and more) and recently achieved a $1.4B valuation.
We have an amazing customer base - https://salt.security/customers and were at a unique sweet spot in a startups lifecycle - the demand from customers is huge, yet our team is small and super high quality.
Now is the opportunity to be a partner in this growth and help shape the future of as the worlds leader in API security.
About the position
We are looking for a Senior DevOps engineer - who will be a vital member of esteemed DevOps engineering team. Your primary responsibility will be to champion and oversee the development platforms and lifecycle processes from inception to execution. Leveraging your expertise, you'll contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure, built atop advanced technologies, to accommodate our rapid scaling.
Our team is very independent and always looking for ways to improve processes.
Salts engineers are experienced, highly motivated, independent, fast learners, great problem solvers, and super fun to work with.
Requirements: 5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer on a high-scale distributed system, working in a Kubernetes environment.
Extensive experience with designing and implementing application and infrastructure monitoring in multi-tenant environments
Hands-on experience in defining and implementing CI/CD processes
Deep understanding of Kubernetes, including its components and main flows
Extensive experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Flux, ArgoCD).
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools, and know how to use them to ensure system reliability and performance
Highly motivated engineer with a passion for improving infrastructure and delivery processes, with a self-learning ability.
An independent and self-learner who thrives in dynamic environments
Preferred (but not mandatory) experience:
B.Sc in computer science or any related field
Experience in AWS services, including EC2, S3, CloudFront, and route 53.
Hands-on experience in the following technologies: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, SingleStore, Grafana
Experience in DevEx development and implementation
This position is open to all candidates.