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title: 'DevSecOps Engineer at Raya'
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# DevSecOps Engineer at Raya

- **Company:** Raya
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $160k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/raya/9f322090-62d1-4c5a-9262-0aeb81c2f540

## Job description

We prioritize learning and teamwork and love giving people the opportunity to champion solutions to big challenges and grow into better versions of themselves. A great candidate believes in Raya's vision, which is to enrich lives by fostering relationships through quality, in person interactions. You thrive at the intersection of DevOps and Security, and you're excited to drive measurable impact by hardening our AWS/EKS environment and systematically closing out security findings.

## Responsibilities

- Security Ownership: Drive software engineering security hygiene end-to-end, from identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to implementing durable fixes across our platform. This includes AWS, Kubernetes, CDN/WAF, and other technologies used in the PDLC

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with DevOps and Engineering teams to embed security best practices into everyday workflows, without slowing down velocity

- Continuous Learning: Stay current on evolving cloud security threats, tooling, and best practices, ensuring Raya's infrastructure stays ahead of emerging risks

- Findings Remediation: Triage, prioritize, and systematically close out security findings, translating scanner output into practical, actionable engineering fixes

- Operational Excellence: Expand and maintain security checks and guardrails in CI/CD pipelines and the broader PDLC, so security becomes a natural part of how we ship, not an afterthought

## Qualifications

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS, comfortable navigating cloud infrastructure and container environments from day one

- Solid foundation in security fundamentals: vulnerability management, IAM, network security, and cloud security posture management

- Experience triaging and remediating security findings from vulnerability scanners or cloud security tools

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating security practices into the software development lifecycle

- Strong communication skills, able to work effectively with both DevOps and Security stakeholders and translate technical risk into clear priorities

- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu), compliance frameworks, or container security tooling

What Sets You Apart

- Bridge Builder: You naturally sit at the intersection of DevOps and Security, translating between the two and earning trust from both sides

- Impact-driven: You prioritize the fixes and improvements that meaningfully reduce risk, rather than chasing every alert

- Growth-oriented: You possess a perpetual learner's mindset, staying curious about new threats, tools, and cloud-native security practices

- Ownership mentality: You take findings from discovery to resolution without needing to be chased, and you build systems so problems don't recur

- Productivity-obsessed: You value tools, workflows, and automation that make security scalable rather than manual

- Bias toward shipping and iteration: You're able to harden systems incrementally, learn, and refine in short cycles rather than waiting for a "perfect" fix

## About Raya

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Raya is a private, membership-based community platform where people around the world can connect and collaborate to find life partners, friends, and professional opportunities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed funded, 2016)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet
- **Target customers**: B2C – Adults seeking a trusted, curated social networking experience
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To create a trusted online community where people feel comfortable finding life partners, friends, and work collaborations, and to bring these interactions into the real world.

## Products & Services
- **Raya App**: A membership-based social community platform that uses an application process with algorithmic assessment and anonymous committee input to curate its user base. Members pay a monthly fee and are expected to follow rules of respect, trust, and privacy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – At least one Pre-Seed round ($1.6M led by Atlas Finance Group in Dec 2016) and another round in June 2019 (details undisclosed). Additional investors include Dreamers VC, Analog Ventures, Section 32, X&Management, and Niche Capital.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atlas Finance Group, Dreamers VC, Analog Ventures, Section 32, X&Management, Niche Capital
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~101 employees, with a **yearly growth of +38.6%**. Workforce distributed across 15 countries. Active job postings are up **+33.3% year-over-year**, indicating expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **High Curation/Exclusivity**: Raya’s strict application process (with referrals and committee review) creates a highly selective, trust-based community that differentiates it from mass-market social networks.
- **Community-First Culture**: Strong emphasis on member behavior and shared values; low report rate (~1 in 11,000 connections) signals a high-quality user experience.
- **Privacy & Trust**: Strict policies against hate, excessive wealth display, and disrespect, creating a safe environment for genuine connections.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Raya has openings in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Mexico City, and is actively growing its engineering and product teams.
- **AI & ML Integration**: The company has a dedicated Head of Machine Learning, AI, and Data, and uses algorithms to assess applications and improve the community experience.
- **Product Development**: Active hiring for Product Managers and Senior Backend Engineers suggests investment in new features (e.g., "Places") and scaling core infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Career Growth**: Fast-growing company (+38.6% YoY headcount) with opportunities to take on ownership in engineering, product, and AI/ML roles.
- **Global & Remote-first Culture**: Fully remote roles available, with global hubs and a diverse team across 15 countries.
- **Technical Challenges**: Work on complex systems for recommendations, member experience, and internal tools using a modern stack (Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, MongoDB, TensorFlow, Looker, dbt).
- **Culture**: Described as a "family of talented individuals" devoted to fostering human connection through technology.
- **Location Flexibility**: Remote roles; hubs in major cities worldwide.

## Sources
1. [rayatheapp.com](https://www.rayatheapp.com/about)
2. [rayatheapp.com/careers](https://www.rayatheapp.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/rayatheapp)
4. [Lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/raya)
5. [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/raya)

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