Software Engineer Identity and Cloud Infrastructure at Captions

Captions is the AI-powered creative studio. Millions of creators around the world have used Captions to make their video content stand out from the pack and we're on a mission to empower the next billion.

Based in NYC, we are a team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, designers, and marketers. You'll be joining an early team where you'll have an outsized impact on both the product and company's culture.

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, Lenny Rachitsky, and more.

Check out our latest milestone and our recent feature on the TODAY show.

** Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Soho) **

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team focused on cloud security. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the security and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure and applications. You will play a key role in mitigating security risks, staying abreast of the latest security trends, and implementing best practices in our DevOps processes. Your expertise in various DevOps tools and your experience with cloud platforms will be essential in designing, developing, and deploying secure and robust solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify and mitigate system security risks and vulnerabilities (owning IAM, KMS, and access policies).

• Implement and automate DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, logging, and alerting. 

• Design, develop, and deploy secure cloud infrastructure and applications using platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP.

• Conduct security audits and assessments of cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Collaborate with the broader engineering team for software quality and delivery.

• Establish and champion organizational DevOps standards and best practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• Minimum of 7 years experience as a DevOps engineer or similar role.

• Expertise in relevant tooling, software (Git, Teleport, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Proficiency with multi-cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, GCP, AWS, hybrid).

• Skilled in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).

• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of MLOps tools and machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, etc.).

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

• Anything you need to do your best work

• We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future.

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.