Mid Level Developer Operations Engineer Jobs in California

Position

Company: Dinari Inc.
Location: San Mateo, CA (Hybrid / Remote Friendly)
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-to-Senior

Position Overview

As a DevOps & Security Engineer, you will bridge the gap between development, operations, and security (DevSecOps). You will be responsible for building and maintaining automated, self-healing cloud infrastructure while ensuring our environments meet strict financial compliance and security standards as we bridge traditional and modern markets.

This role is ideal for someone who views infrastructure through the lens of software engineering—valuing automation, rigorous testing, comprehensive monitoring, and "security by design."

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Cloud Management

• Terraform Leadership: Design, write, and maintain clean, modular, and reusable Terraform code to manage AWS/GCP multi-region cloud architectures.
• Environment Provisioning: Automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of development, staging, and production environments.
• CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Build and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins) to ensure seamless, automated, and secure software delivery.

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• System Monitoring: Architect and scale our observability stack (using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry) to provide deep insights into application and infrastructure health.
• Incident Response & SLIs/SLOs: Define, track, and alert on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Proactive Performance Tuning: Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and proactively optimize systems for high availability, low latency, and cost-efficiency.

Web3 & Blockchain Operations

• Smart Contract CI/CD: Automate the packaging, testing, and deployment pipelines for blockchain smart contracts across staging networks (testnets) and production environments (mainnets).
• On-Chain Monitoring & Alerting: Set up comprehensive real-time monitoring and alerting systems for smart contract events, state changes, transaction failures, and gas consumption patterns.
• Node Infrastructure: Assist in provisioning, scaling, and maintaining secure, reliable blockchain node infrastructure and RPC providers.

Security Program Management & Compliance

• DevSecOps Implementation: Integrate security tooling directly into our CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST, container vulnerability scanning, and dependency analysis).
• IAM & Secrets Management: Implement strict Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) across all cloud services, managing credentials, API keys, and private keys securely (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
• Compliance Alignment: Partner with our compliance teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with strict fintech industry frameworks (such as SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001).
• Vulnerability & Patch Management: Regularly audit cloud configurations, conduct vulnerability assessments, and orchestrate automated patching cycles.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 4+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Security role, preferably within a regulated industry (Fintech, Healthtech, or Web3).
• Cloud Expertise: Strong hands-on experience managing production-grade environments in AWS (preferred) or GCP.
• IaC Mastery: Deep, production-tested experience with Terraform (structuring modules and managing state files).
• Observability Champions: Proven track record of setting up comprehensive logging, metrics, and distributed tracing systems from scratch.
• Scripting & Automation: Strong familiarity with Python (and/or Go/Bash) to automate workflows, build custom tooling, and minimize operational toil.
• Blockchain Exposure: Familiarity with blockchain concepts and smart contract deployment frameworks (e.g., Hardhat, Foundry, or Truffle) and basic monitoring tools for decentralized applications (dApps).
• Security Mindset: Practical experience securing cloud networking (VPCs, firewalls, WAFs), managing IAM policies, and automating security compliance checks.
• Containerization: Strong knowledge of Docker and container orchestration platforms.

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary ($140,000 - $220,000 USD, depending on experience) + equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible hybrid/remote work setup.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).