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title: 'Senior Dev Ops Engineer at Reality Defender'
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# Senior Dev Ops Engineer at Reality Defender

- **Company:** Reality Defender
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $170k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender/7f6993f1-264c-415c-88a6-b7116ef7b63a

## Job description

Who we are. Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time. Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes. [Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOZmwyNUNM) The Senior DevOps Engineer Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key technical owner of our cloud infrastructure and deployment ecosystem. You will work across engineering to build highly reliable infrastructure, automate operational processes, strengthen our security posture, and make it easier for teams to ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role. We are looking for someone who is exceptionally strong in both AWS and Azure and can operate comfortably across complex cloud environments. You should be the person engineers turn to when something needs to be architected, automated, scaled, secured, or fixed. You will have significant autonomy and ownership, with the opportunity to shape our infrastructure and DevOps practices as the company scales.

- Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and other automation tools
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release automation
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Establish strong observability across infrastructure and applications, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics using DataDog
- Build systems and processes that improve reliability, uptime, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Partner with Engineering and Security to identify and remediate infrastructure and cloud security risks
- Manage cloud networking, identity management, object storage, RDBMS, access controls, secrets management, DNS, load balancing, and related infrastructure
- Automate repetitive operational work and eliminate manual processes wherever possible
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead infrastructure-related incident response
- Establish and improve infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational best practices
- Help evaluate and implement new cloud technologies and tooling as our architecture evolves
- Support the infrastructure requirements of high-scale AI/ML workloads
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for cloud infrastructure and operational excellence
- Help define the long-term architecture and roadmap for our cloud and DevOps environment
- Work with compliance resources for SOC2, ISO, and FedRAMP certifications

Who you are.

- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a closely related discipline
- Expert-level experience with both AWS and Azure — this is a core requirement
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, scalability, and reliability
- Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerized environments
- Deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, routing, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs
- Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and cloud security
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms and practices
- Strong scripting/programming ability in languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar
- Experience operating production systems where reliability and uptime matter
- Excellent incident response and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership from architecture through implementation and operations
- Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with software engineers, security teams, and technical leadership

Within 3 months, you’ll…

- Develop a deep understanding of our AWS and Azure environments and identify the highest-priority infrastructure risks and opportunities
- Establish strong relationships with Engineering and Security
- Take ownership of critical infrastructure and operational processes
- Identify and eliminate meaningful sources of manual work and operational friction
- Improve reliability, observability, and deployment processes
- Begin implementing a clear roadmap for scaling our infrastructure as the company grows

What we offer. Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

- Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
- Commuter benefits
- Remote Fridays
- Happy Hours and other local events

## About Reality Defender

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reality Defender is a deepfake detection platform that protects enterprises and governments from real-time AI-generated media fraud across voice, video, image, and text.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ben Colman (CEO), Gaurav Bharaj, Ali Shahriyari

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security / Deepfake Detection
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators
- **Mission**: Become the de facto AI detection standard for large organizations, ensuring trust in an AI-enabled world by providing real-time detection of synthetic media.

## Products & Services
- **Reality Defender API & SDKs**: Award-winning AI models for detecting deepfakes and AI-manipulated media across audio, video, and images. Free tier available for developers.
- **Contact Center Security**: Real-time detection of deepfake impersonations during calls to prevent fraud.
- **Secure Video Conferencing**: Protects video meetings from synthetic media injection and impersonation.
- **Access Security & Fraud Prevention**: Identity verification and user authentication with deepfake detection.
- **Brand & Executive Protection**: Monitors and detects impersonation of executives and brands across channels.
- **Government Solutions**: Tailored detection layers for high-risk environments, including defense and intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (total funding $48.6M)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue $4.5M (estimated); total funding $48.6M across 9 rounds (Series A $33M led by Illuminate Financial, Oct 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Illuminate Financial (lead Series A), Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, SXSW (grant), JPMorgan (Hall of Innovation), World Economic Forum (Technology Pioneer), USA DIU + Japan MOD (Global Innovation Challenge winner)
- **Growth Signals**: 63 employees (+26.9% YoY); recognized as market leader by Gartner (2025); won RSA Conference “Most Innovative Startup” (2024); inducted into JPMorgan Hall of Innovation (2025); operates in 8 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ensemble detection engine**: Uses hundreds of simultaneous, platform-agnostic techniques to detect the widest array of synthetic content.
- **Multi-modal coverage**: Real-time detection across voice, video, image, and text.
- **Enterprise-grade scale**: Deploy-anywhere solutions integrated into existing workflows (calls, meetings, identity systems).
- **Bleeding edge resilience**: Models are continuously blended, tested, and updated to anticipate new generative AI threats.
- **Strong partnerships and trust**: Advisory council includes former CIA, Google Privacy Officer, and military leaders; clients include financial institutions and government agencies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling enterprise adoption, expanding into new verticals (finance, government), deepening real-time detection capabilities, and building the “Enterprise Authenticity Layer” for critical communications.
- **Growth direction**: Becoming the standard for deepfake detection in large organizations, investing in research (publications on audio and video detection), and growing the team (10 open positions as of mid-2026).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on cutting-edge AI security that directly protects people, institutions, and democratic trust.
- **Culture**: Values of integrity, continuous innovation, cross-functionality, impact, and inclusion. Emphasizes transparency and rigorous testing.
- **Work environment**: Collaborative in-office environment in historic Tribeca, New York City. Team of builders, researchers, and realists.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health and wellness benefits, generous employee perks, and investment in professional growth.
- **Engineering culture**: Bleeding-edge AI research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to publish and contribute to the field.

## Sources
1. [realitydefender.com/company](https://www.realitydefender.com/company)
2. [realitydefender.com/](https://www.realitydefender.com/)
3. [realitydefender.com/careers](https://www.realitydefender.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/reality-defender](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reality-defender)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender)

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