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Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.
Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor to our infrastructure strategy, focusing on automation, stability, and performance across both cloud and on-premise environments. You will drive best practices in CI/CD, configuration management, and monitoring, with a specific focus on optimizing the deployment and operation of large language models (LLMs) and related technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes and Docker across public cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premise data centers.
- Develop and maintain robust Configuration Management solutions (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) for consistent environment provisioning and management.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid, reliable, and automated software releases.
- Administer and troubleshoot operating systems, encompassing both Linux and Windows environments.
- Implement and optimize observability practices using monitoring tools like Datadog for logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Spearhead the operational deployment, scaling, and maintenance of LLM infrastructure, leveraging tools like LiteLLM, OpenRouter, or similar LLM orchestration/gateway technologies.
- Automate repetitive tasks and system operations using scripting languages, primarily Bash and Python.
- Collaborate closely with development, MLOps, and security teams to ensure infrastructure supports product requirements and compliance standards.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure service reliability and responsiveness to incidents.
Qualifications
Required Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.
- Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration, specifically Kubernetes (design, deployment, and troubleshooting) and Docker.
- Strong proficiency in managing infrastructure in both Cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and On-Premise environments.
- Expert-level administration skills in Linux and strong working knowledge of Windows Server environments.
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- High proficiency in scripting and automation using Python and Bash.
- Extensive experience with monitoring and observability platforms, especially Datadog (or comparable tools like Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic).
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing technologies related to Large Language Models (LLMs), such as utilizing LiteLLM, OpenRouter, or setting up and managing LLM serving endpoints.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with specific Kubernetes distributions (e.g., K3s, Rancher, OpenShift).
- Familiarity with network configuration, firewalls, and security best practices for hybrid environments.
- Experience in MLOps workflows and related tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow).
- Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or relevant cloud provider certifications.
Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications
At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $133,400 - $200,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, or status as a protected individual to satisfy ITAR, contractual, and/or regulatory requirements.
Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Information collected and processed as part of any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Archer's Candidate Privacy Policy.
Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.
Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Archer Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to People@archer.com. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.
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Principal Software Development Engineer - Rust, LLM, Networking
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About Zscaler
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are hiring a Principal Software Development Engineer to be a founding member of our AI Security Team, offering the chance to build a high-reliability, low-latency AI security solution designed to scale for hundreds of millions of users. In this role, reporting to the Director, Software Development Engineering, you will be responsible for designing and implementing core infrastructure components and distributed systems while collaborating closely with various stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle. This is a hybrid role, reporting in to the San Jose, CA office 3 days a week.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
- Architect, develop, and optimize a low-latency, high-throughput AI Security plane utilizing Rust, specifically leveraging its async/await model for highly efficient I/O and service-oriented architecture.
- Build resilient, distributed, and scalable systems, emphasizing concurrency, fault tolerance, and robust messaging protocols.
- Implement and maintain gRPC services and APIs to ensure seamless integration of the AI Security plane with control and orchestration infrastructure.
- Systematically enhance performance across the entire stack, including LLM models, by employing profiling tools for both kernel-space and user-space components.
- Contribute actively to the team through technical documentation, system design reviews, code reviews, and by mentoring junior engineering staff.Lead complex, multi-functional projects and initiatives, defining the technical roadmap and driving execution across teams.
Who You Are (Success Profile)
- Drive the mission with an owner's mindset, seamlessly bridging high-level strategy and detailed, hands-on execution.
- Actively seek challenges and find complex solutions that deliver maximum impact.
- Deeply empathize with internal and external stakeholders, anchoring every decision in addressing their real-world problems.
- Maintain strong technical curiosity, continually seeking more secure, scalable, and effective methods to accelerate transformation.
- Connect your work to the company's broader mission, designing solutions to support high-growth, global organizational needs.
What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- Deep experience in systems programming using Rust, with a focus on asynchronous frameworks such as Tokio or async-std.
- Proven ability to design and implement horizontally scalable, highly available, and observable distributed systems.
- Strong command of Linux internals, including kernel-user space interaction, networking, sockets, and namespaces.
- Skilled in performance instrumentation, containerized environments, Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)
- Expert in systems languages such as C/C++ or Rust, with a focus on performance optimization.
- Deep understanding of Linux networking stacks, Kubernetes networking, service meshes, and LLM model optimization.
- Practical experience with gRPC, Protobufs, and L4-L7 networking protocols, including TCP/IP, TLS, QUIC, HTTP, and WebSockets (WSS).
- Direct experience in validating AI-driven products, including understanding of model performance metrics and MLOps principles.
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Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.
At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure.
Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
Learn more about Zscaler’s Future of Work strategy, hybrid working model, and benefits here.
By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. See more information by clicking on the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal link.
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Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.
Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.
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Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.
Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
We are looking for a highly motivated and versatile Senior Platform Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This unique role is central to accelerating our product development lifecycle and operational efficiency. You will be instrumental in bridging the gap between development, infrastructure, and our burgeoning AI/ML initiatives, focusing on automation, self-service infrastructure, and workflow optimization. This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives on creating leverage for others and tackling complex, interdisciplinary challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
CI/CD and Automation
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker) to ensure rapid and safe deployments across multiple environments.
- Drive the adoption of best practices for build management, testing automation, and deployment strategies (Canary, Blue/Green, etc.).
- Minimize deployment friction and cycle time for all engineering teams.
Self-Service Infrastructure & Provisioning
- Develop and champion self-service tooling and internal platforms (leveraging tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, or equivalent cloud provider APIs) that empower development teams to provision and manage their own infrastructure resources securely and efficiently.
- Establish guardrails and policy-as-code to ensure compliance, cost efficiency, and security across all provisioned infrastructure.
AI Infrastructure Enhancement & Support
- Collaborate closely with AI/ML Engineers to improve the underlying platform used for model training, experimentation, and serving.
- Focus on the operationalization of MLOps pipelines, including data lineage tracking, feature store integration, and production model deployment automation.
- Assist in optimizing resource allocation (e.g., GPU usage, specialized hardware) for AI workloads.
Workflow Automation & Internal Tooling
- Architect and build automated workflows and bots, primarily within communication tools like Slack or Zoom, to streamline common engineering tasks (e.g., on-call handoffs, incident response, environment status checks, approval processes).
- Develop internal APIs and services that connect disparate engineering systems to enhance communication and cross-functional transparency.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related discipline.
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform strongly preferred).
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker and Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in scripting and general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
- Extensive experience designing and managing CI/CD systems at scale.
- Proven track record of building internal developer platforms or self-service tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps tooling, or data pipeline technologies (e.g., Airflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker).
- Prior experience building conversational interfaces, bots, or workflow automation tools for platforms like Slack or Teams.
- Familiarity with distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).
- Experience with security best practices in a cloud environment (IAM, network security, secrets management).
At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $144,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Information collected and processed as part of any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Archer's Candidate Privacy Policy.
Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.
Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Archer Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to People@archer.com. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.
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DevOps Engineer
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Linqia is the leader in the influencer marketing industry. We’re a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with the world’s largest brands including Danone, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.
We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win.
SOFTWARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVOPS ENGINEER
Experience level 3+ YoE supporting production saas in AWS
Location Anywhere in LATAM preferably in Colombia
Employment type Full‑time contract
ABOUT THE ROLE
Build out a cloud‑native team that owns the entire software delivery life cycle on Amazon Web Services. You will combine deep Kubernetes expertise with Python and shell scripting to automate, monitor, and continuously improve the Linqia platform while driving FinOps practices to keep our cloud footprint efficient. Work in a GitOps culture where every change is delivered through pull requests and rolled out by automated pipelines.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS account structure, VPC networking, IAM policies, security boundaries, and cost‑management controls using Terraform and the AWS console
- Maintain secure networking layers with AWS load balancers, ingress controllers, service‑mesh policies, network policies, and zero‑trust principles
- Operate and harden production‑grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including upgrades, service mesh, policy management, and multi‑cluster architectures driven by Argo CD
- Build reusable infrastructure‑as‑code modules with Terraform that provision cloud resources in minutes while enforcing tagging standards and least‑privilege access
- Create self‑service CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for fast, safe releases with automated testing and promotion across environments
- Deliver real‑time observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, and use these tools to assist in solving production bugs and issues
- Administer and maintain purpose-built Linux VMs via configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
- Deploy, scale, and maintain databases on AWS (Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, etc.), maintaining high database performance/uptime, optimizing tables and datasets, and ensuring disaster recovery protocols are in place.
- Support developers by maintaining Podman‑based local dev boxes and Kubernetes staging environments that mirror production, ensuring smooth hand‑off from local code to cloud‑native deployments
- Implement FinOps practices: track and forecast AWS spend, enforce cost‑allocation tagging, identify rightsizing opportunities, manage Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, and build cost‑optimisation dashboards for engineering and finance stakeholders
- Write automation utilities and command‑line tools in Python and craft shell scripts that glue components and workflows together
- Champion reliability through incident reviews, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and service‑level objective tracking
- Collaborate in Agile rituals, plan sprints, refine backlog tickets, and pair with peers to spread DevOps and FinOps best practices
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- three plus years working with cloud infrastructure or platform engineering focused on AWS
- Deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, covering upgrades, networking, storage, RBAC, and custom resources
- Proficiency in Python and Bash or Zsh scripting
- Strong understanding of core AWS services EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
- Demonstrated experience applying FinOps principles: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimisation on AWS
- Solid experience with Docker and container runtimes, with emphasis on Podman for local development environments
- Hands‑on practice with configuration‑management tools such as Ansible or Puppet and infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform
- Proven use of Datadog for metrics, logs, and APM, plus familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
- Comfortable with Git‑based workflows, feature branching, and pull‑request reviews
- Strong SQL skills and a deep understanding of relational database internals
- Competent in Linux administration, process troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Practical knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and common networking tools
- Clear communication skills and an ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences
- Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and a continuous‑improvement mindset
EXTRA CREDIT
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or FinOps Practitioner
- Experience with AWS security tooling GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and KMS
- Building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks
- Implementing event‑driven architectures with Kafka Streams or KSQL
- Applying SRE practices such as error budgets and service‑level dashboards
- Exposure to machine‑learning workflows, ModelOps, or MLOps in production
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. Linqia is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes or candidates through this Web site or directly to employees. Linqia does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with us.
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DevOps Engineer
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Linqia is the leader in the influencer marketing industry. We’re a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with the world’s largest brands including Danone, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.
We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win.
SOFTWARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVOPS ENGINEER
Experience level 3+ YoE supporting production saas in AWS
Location Anywhere in LATAM preferably in Colombia
Employment type Full‑time contract
ABOUT THE ROLE
Build out a cloud‑native team that owns the entire software delivery life cycle on Amazon Web Services. You will combine deep Kubernetes expertise with Python and shell scripting to automate, monitor, and continuously improve the Linqia platform while driving FinOps practices to keep our cloud footprint efficient. Work in a GitOps culture where every change is delivered through pull requests and rolled out by automated pipelines.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS account structure, VPC networking, IAM policies, security boundaries, and cost‑management controls using Terraform and the AWS console
- Maintain secure networking layers with AWS load balancers, ingress controllers, service‑mesh policies, network policies, and zero‑trust principles
- Operate and harden production‑grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including upgrades, service mesh, policy management, and multi‑cluster architectures driven by Argo CD
- Build reusable infrastructure‑as‑code modules with Terraform that provision cloud resources in minutes while enforcing tagging standards and least‑privilege access
- Create self‑service CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for fast, safe releases with automated testing and promotion across environments
- Deliver real‑time observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, and use these tools to assist in solving production bugs and issues
- Administer and maintain purpose-built Linux VMs via configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
- Deploy, scale, and maintain databases on AWS (Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, etc.), maintaining high database performance/uptime, optimizing tables and datasets, and ensuring disaster recovery protocols are in place.
- Support developers by maintaining Podman‑based local dev boxes and Kubernetes staging environments that mirror production, ensuring smooth hand‑off from local code to cloud‑native deployments
- Implement FinOps practices: track and forecast AWS spend, enforce cost‑allocation tagging, identify rightsizing opportunities, manage Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, and build cost‑optimisation dashboards for engineering and finance stakeholders
- Write automation utilities and command‑line tools in Python and craft shell scripts that glue components and workflows together
- Champion reliability through incident reviews, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and service‑level objective tracking
- Collaborate in Agile rituals, plan sprints, refine backlog tickets, and pair with peers to spread DevOps and FinOps best practices
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- three plus years working with cloud infrastructure or platform engineering focused on AWS
- Deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, covering upgrades, networking, storage, RBAC, and custom resources
- Proficiency in Python and Bash or Zsh scripting
- Strong understanding of core AWS services EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
- Demonstrated experience applying FinOps principles: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimisation on AWS
- Solid experience with Docker and container runtimes, with emphasis on Podman for local development environments
- Hands‑on practice with configuration‑management tools such as Ansible or Puppet and infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform
- Proven use of Datadog for metrics, logs, and APM, plus familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
- Comfortable with Git‑based workflows, feature branching, and pull‑request reviews
- Strong SQL skills and a deep understanding of relational database internals
- Competent in Linux administration, process troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Practical knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and common networking tools
- Clear communication skills and an ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences
- Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and a continuous‑improvement mindset
EXTRA CREDIT
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or FinOps Practitioner
- Experience with AWS security tooling GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and KMS
- Building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks
- Implementing event‑driven architectures with Kafka Streams or KSQL
- Applying SRE practices such as error budgets and service‑level dashboards
- Exposure to machine‑learning workflows, ModelOps, or MLOps in production
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. Linqia is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes or candidates through this Web site or directly to employees. Linqia does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with us.
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Director, Compliance Data Science & AI
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Who We Are
About the Opportunity
- Few compliance analytics roles offer this combination: genuinely novel problems, global scale, and the freedom to build rather than maintain. At a global crypto exchange, the financial crime data landscape is more varied, more real-time, and more analytically rich than almost anywhere in traditional finance. The regulatory environment is evolving quickly, the typologies are new territory, and the analytical work has direct impact on how the organisation detects and responds to financial crime. This role sits within the Product organisation and is dedicated entirely to that space, covering AML, sanctions, KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, and beyond.
- You will join a collaborative team of data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts, working closely with compliance stakeholders across the full range of financial crime domains. The role sits at the point where product engineering culture meets compliance depth, and you will have room to contribute across both. It is a role well suited to someone who enjoys varied, substantive work and values being part of a team that takes the quality of its output seriously.
- The team is actively building toward an AI-native way of working. LLM-assisted coding, automated analytical pipelines, and AI-augmented investigation tools are already part of how the team operates or in active development. For someone who has wanted to apply AI seriously in a compliance context without cutting corners on rigour or auditability, this is an environment where that work is already underway and genuinely valued.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead delivery of advanced analytics and AI initiatives across core compliance domains including AML detection, sanctions screening, KYC/KYB risk modelling, customer risk rating, transaction monitoring calibration, and SAR analytics, with involvement from problem definition through to production.
- Work as the primary point of contact between the Product engineering team and compliance stakeholders, translating regulatory requirements into scoped analytical workstreams and bringing analytical findings back to compliance teams in a form that is clear, actionable, and well grounded in the underlying data.
- Drive the adoption of AI-assisted workflows across the team's compliance analytics work: LLM-assisted coding, automated analytical pipelines, AI-augmented investigation and triage. You will help demonstrate what AI-native working looks like in a compliance context and support the broader team in building confidence with these approaches.
- Work hands-on with ML engineers on detection models and risk scoring systems that are production-grade and auditable. Compliance analytics requires both explainability and reliability, and experience balancing those two requirements in practice will be important here.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to data scientists and analytics engineers through code and methodology reviews, collaborative problem solving on complex compliance workstreams, and a consistent focus on raising the quality of the work across the team.
- Partner with product managers on scoping, sequencing, and effort estimation for compliance analytics initiatives, bringing both technical and regulatory context to delivery planning conversations.
- Maintain documentation and governance standards for compliance analytics output, ensuring that models and analyses are recorded clearly enough to support internal review, regulatory scrutiny, and knowledge continuity within the team.
- Contribute to regulatory responses and internal audit events by leading the data science workstream: coordinating analytical evidence, supporting the technical narrative, and presenting findings to compliance and legal review functions where required.
What We Look For In You
- 10+ years in data science, quantitative analytics, or ML, with meaningful time in a leadership or senior individual contributor capacity in a compliance or regulatory analytics environment within financial services, fintech, or a crypto exchange. We welcome candidates across varied seniority levels; scope and responsibilities will be calibrated to your experience.
- Solid compliance domain knowledge, with hands-on experience across one or more of AML typology detection, sanctions analytics, KYC/KYB modelling, customer risk rating, or transaction monitoring. Comfort navigating nuanced conversations with compliance stakeholders, where analytical and regulatory requirements do not always align neatly, will serve you well in this role.
- Strong Python and SQL, applied ML across supervised, unsupervised, anomaly detection, and graph-based methods, and enough MLOps and data engineering fluency to engage credibly in production design conversations with engineers.
- A working AI-first mindset: you use AI tools regularly in your own work, have a view on where LLMs and automation genuinely improve compliance analytics workflows, and understand where they introduce risk. Experience helping a team build confidence with new AI approaches is a plus.
- Good cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to engage clearly with compliance officers, product managers, and engineers who each bring different priorities to the same conversation.
- Experience mentoring data scientists and analysts, with a genuine interest in helping colleagues develop and in raising the overall quality of the work around you.
- Familiarity with model governance, explainability requirements, and the documentation standards associated with analytics work in a regulated environment.
- Some exposure to working within or alongside a Product organisation, with an understanding of how delivery cycles, engineering prioritisation, and roadmaps are managed in practice.
- Familiarity with the crypto ecosystem, on-chain analytics, blockchain data, or VASP compliance frameworks is a meaningful advantage for this role.
- Experience with regulatory examinations, enforcement responses, or formal model validation in a compliance context. Having worked through one of those processes gives you a perspective on what the work ultimately needs to withstand, and that experience is genuinely valued here.
Perks & Benefits
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Competitive total compensation package
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L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
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Various team building programs and company events
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Wellness and meal allowances
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Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
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More that we love to tell you along the process!
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The salary range for this position is $313,055.00 to $375,666.00.
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The salary offered depends on a variety of factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to the salary, a performance bonus and long-term incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via OKX internal or external careers site.
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