About Nightfall

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.

Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Nightfall, you will design, build, and maintain the tools that make our engineering team efficient. You will be responsible for building and managing environments in AWS. This position is highly technical and a balance between engineering and operations. The ideal candidate is self-motivated and open to leading other team members. You'll be the backbone of the engineering team, and we are looking for a senior engineer passionate about CICD, scalable configs as code, and developer-facing tooling.

Responsibilities:

Drive, implement, support and maintain infrastructure services with a primary focus on technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Docker, Kafka, Postgres, etc.

Collaborate and evangelize the right cloud solutions throughout the business by creating a visionary direction and road map for Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Implement automation to perform the day to day operations functions of the cloud platform working across all teams

Develop, monitor and build alerts around error conditions and performance

Work in a fast-paced environment while participating in conceptualizing and building CI/CD pipelines

Be on-call as needed to support the infrastructure and our systems and drive philosophies around site reliability

Own database infrastructure management — provisioning and patching.

Act as the primary infrastructure support resource for engineering teams.

Manage security hygiene: dependency vulnerability remediation, KMS secrets management, IAM/IRSA role governance, and SOC 2 compliance evidence

Requirements:

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering

5+ years of experience with public cloud (AWS)

2+ years of experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tooling such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.

2+ year experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, or LXC

Experience working in high availability and scalable SaaS or consumer technologies

Experience deploying high available and scalable, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container orchestration tools like K8s

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong working knowledge using service meshes including Linkerd

5+ years experience with Go, Python or similar high-level language

5+ years of experience with Bash or equivalent shell scripting languages

Good working knowledge of Virtualization technologies such ask KVM, Hyper-V, or VMWare

Experience architecting, implementing, and managing environments in AWS

Robust knowledge of Terraform

5+ years of experience with GCP, experience with Microsoft Azure

Hands-on experience implementing AWS services such as: EC2 Load Balancing, VPC, Route 53, Direct Connect, NAT Gateway, VPN, EC2 Networking, Lambda