--- title: 'Senior DevOps Engineer at Xapien' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-devops-engineer-xapien-london-mjpwd7m0mzdf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Senior DevOps Engineer at Xapien - **Company:** Xapien - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Compensation:** £100k–£110k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-04-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/xapien/3eadb9da-586f-4e48-81d6-d7290629f37e/application **Skills:** Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Bash, Python, Go, Observability stacks, Metrics, Logs, Traces, Temporal, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, SAST, SBOM > Own the CI/CD platform and developer experience for an AI-driven due diligence company. You will build and optimize infrastructure on Kubernetes and GCP, automate pipelines, and mentor engineers to improve shipping speed and reliability. ## Job description ## About Us Every business needs to know who they’re really working with whether it’s suppliers, investors, partners, or third parties. At Xapien, we’re reinventing how organisations do that, combining speed, scale and accuracy with cutting-edge AI. Since 2018, we’ve grown from a deep-tech startup to a global player in AI-driven due diligence and risk intelligence. 2024 was a landmark year as we closed a $10M Series A, earned recognition in the Chartis RiskTech100® and Everest Group’s Leading 50™, and expanded our products, markets and customer base. 2025 was even bigger: With new regulations, rising compliance pressure and growing reputation risks, organisations everywhere are demanding smarter, faster ways to work and they’re turning to us. Customers worldwide from global law firms and private banks to universities and nonprofits rely on Xapien to turn days of manual research into trusted insights, delivered in minutes. Our momentum so far Customers in a diverse range of industries, with particular growth in wealth management, financial services and supply chain onboarding. Demand accelerating beyond our UK headquarters, across multiple continents with new customers in the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania. Why this is an exciting time to join This isn’t just another job role; it’s an opportunity to shape the future of the due diligence industry with a market-leading product trusted by global organisations. Whether you’re in marketing, communications, sales, or finance, you’ll play a critical role in driving growth, building credibility, and defining how we connect our product to a rapidly evolving market. We’re scaling fast with more customers, more releases, and bigger regulatory and market challenges. Expectations are rising, due diligence now means real-time insight, delivered efficiently and with impact. You won’t just be executing campaigns, closing deals, or managing numbers, you’ll be influencing strategy, optimising processes, and helping position a brand that’s setting the new standard for trust and transparency. For people who love learning, innovating, and making an impact that matters now is the moment to be a part of Xapien. ## THE ROLE We're hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our CI/CD platform and developer experience. You'll be the person who makes shipping software fast, safe, and enjoyable, building the foundations that every engineering team relies on daily. Our infrastructure runs on Kubernetes in GCP, with Go microservices, Temporal workflows, and a modern observability stack built on Grafana Cloud. You'll work across the full delivery pipeline, from how code gets built and tested, to how it gets deployed and monitored in production. We're an AI-native engineering team. We use Claude Code daily and we think seriously about how AI tooling changes the way engineering work gets done. We want a DevOps engineer who brings that same mindset to infrastructure and tooling, automating aggressively, reducing toil relentlessly, and thinking about how the right platform decisions multiply productivity across the whole org. You'll have real ownership here. This isn't a support role; you'll set the direction for how we build, test, and ship software, and you'll work closely with our platform and product engineering teams to make sure the developer experience keeps pace with our ambitions. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, making them faster, more reliable, and easier to reason about - Define and drive our developer experience strategy — from local development environments to deployment workflows - Build internal tooling and automation that reduces friction and cognitive load for product engineers - Establish standards and best practices around deployment, testing pipelines, and release processes - Partner with the platform team on the boundary between infrastructure and developer tooling - Instrument and improve the observability of our pipelines and delivery process - Champion a culture of fast feedback loops and high deployment confidence - Use AI tooling to accelerate your own work and help shape how the wider team does the same - Identify and address systemic bottlenecks in how we build and ship software - Mentor engineers across the org on DevOps practices and platform tooling ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR ## ESSENTIAL - 6+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or a related role - Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms — GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar - Deep understanding of Kubernetes and container-based deployment workflows - Experience with GCP or equivalent cloud provider at production scale - Solid infrastructure-as-code fundamentals (Terraform or similar) - Strong scripting and automation skills — comfortable in Bash, Python, or Go - A genuine interest in developer experience: you care about how engineers feel when they interact with the systems you build - Experience working with observability stacks — metrics, logs, traces — and using them to improve pipeline reliability - Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives with minimal guidance - Strong communication skills — able to work across teams and translate infrastructure concerns into language that lands with product engineers ## HIGHLY DESIRABLE - Experience with Temporal or workflow orchestration systems - Familiarity with Kafka or event streaming infrastructure - Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and the wider observability ecosystem - Background in platform or internal developer platform (IDP) thinking - Exposure to security and compliance tooling within CI/CD pipelines (SAST, SBOM, secret scanning) - Experience driving DevEx improvements and measuring their impact - Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and how it changes platform requirements ## OUR TECH STACK - Languages: Go, Bash, Python - CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD - Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform - Observability: Grafana stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) - Messaging & Orchestration: Temporal, Kafka - Development Tools: Claude Code, AI-assisted development workflows ## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE In your first 6 months, you will have: - Materially improved the speed or reliability of our CI/CD pipelines - Shipped at least one developer experience improvement that engineers talk about positively - Established clear ownership and standards around our deployment process - Built strong working relationships with platform and product engineering teams - Contributed to how we think about and measure developer productivity - Helped evolve our AI-assisted engineering practices within the DevOps domain Here’s our promise to you: - We are going to work with you - to build a rewarding and fulfilling career with the opportunities, challenges and resources you need to do you your best work. - We succeed together- you will own a meaningful part of the business through our employee shares & equity programme. - Private health insurance to keep you in tip-top condition. - Life Insurance – let's hope nobody ever needs this! - Unlimited holidays – yes, it really is uncapped – take the time you need, when you need it. - Everyone is learning, developing and challenging themselves so we have a £1k professional development fund per year if you want to learn new skills, even new things outside of work. - Most importantly of all, we will work with you, to help you realise your fullest potential, always. ## About Xapien ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Xapien provides an AI-powered due diligence platform that delivers comprehensive risk research on any person or company in minutes. - **Entity Type**: Private (funded; total funding $12.5M, including a £6M seed round closed in 2023) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (Moorgate) and Boston, United States (Seaport District) - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Dan Secretan and Shaun O’Mahony ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: RegTech, Risk & Compliance, Due Diligence, AI Software - Target customers: B2B – compliance teams, financial institutions, law firms, consultancies, and enterprises needing third-party risk research - Mission or purpose statement: “Powering trust in global business” – establishing a new standard for due diligence without compromise. ## Products & Services - **Xapien Platform**: An enterprise-grade AI resolution engine that automatically researches any person or company across the entire indexed internet and any connected data sets. It delivers a unified view with full sourcing, multilingual capabilities, and false-positive removal. Available as a SaaS platform. - **Integrity Check (powered by Xapien)**: A product built in partnership with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, providing streamlined integrity screening. - **Xapien Xchange**: A user community and forum for sharing best practices and product feedback. - **‘Ask Xapien’**: A dynamic in-report research feature that allows users to query the platform conversationally within a report. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $12.5M (as of 2023); annual revenue of approximately $2.0M (LinkedIn estimate) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Initial angel investors; Founders Factory accelerator (sponsored by Aviva); Chris Pilling (Chairman); Partners: Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, ComplyAdvantage, OpenCorporates, Sayari, Pinsent Masons. - **Growth Signals**: 75 employees (+41.9% YoY); US revenue grew to 43% of ARR without in-country hires; partner revenue reached 30% of ARR; opened a Boston office in 2026; expanded into Asia-Pacific; recognised in Chartis RiskTech100, KYC Solutions, and FCC50 reports; joined TechNation Upscale and Google AI First accelerator. ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built AI**: Designed specifically for due diligence, not a general-purpose LLM – includes advanced multilingual research, entity resolution, and false-positive removal. - **Comprehensive coverage**: Processes information across all languages and jurisdictions, pulling from the entire indexed internet plus proprietary data sets. - **Speed and automation**: Reduces onboarding times by 65% and AML check hours by 90%, enabling low-risk clients to be onboarded in one day. - **Full sourcing and auditability**: Every fact in a report is sourced, making it suitable for regulated environments. - **Enterprise integrations**: Integrates painlessly into existing workflows and scales with bulk-processing capabilities. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic expansion**: Growing US presence (Boston office) and Asia-Pacific footprint. - **Product development**: Launching next-generation features including configurable report templates, bulk-processing, and enhanced speed/accuracy. - **Partnership ecosystem**: Deepening alliances with global consultancies and law firms (e.g., Pinsent Masons) and expanding partner revenue. - **Scaling enterprise adoption**: Targeting large financial institutions and multinational corporations with enterprise-grade capabilities. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Bright minds with hard problems” – a deeply technical environment with AI engineers, computational linguists, ML developers, and PhD scientists. Emphasis on intelligent problem-solving, supportive teamwork, and equitable tech culture. - **Work policy**: Hybrid working (access to WeWork offices in London and Boston); flexible schedules. - **Perks**: Unlimited holidays (uncapped), competitive salary with regular reviews, highly-competitive bonus plan, meaningful equity for all employees, 4-figure wellness and development budget per year, top-of-the-range kit, health insurance, life insurance, pension/401k, and proactive focus on financial, mental, and physical wellbeing. Regular team lunches, drinks, and activities. - **Growth**: Fast-growing company (75 people, +41.9% YoY) with many open roles across engineering, product, and go-to-market. Opportunity to shape product and culture. ## Sources 1. [xapien.com](https://xapien.com/) 2. [xapien.com/about-us](https://xapien.com/about-us/) 3. [xapien.com/careers](https://xapien.com/careers/) 4. [xapien.com/the-team](https://xapien.com/the-team/) 5. 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