Staff DevOps Engineer at Descope (Tel Aviv)
Descope· Tel Aviv·
Job description
Descope is a developer-first identity provider for customers, partners, and AI agents. Our drag & drop approach to identity enables developers to easily deploy authentication, MFA, SSO, and MCP / AI agent auth without writing custom code. Descope is trusted by over 1000 organizations in production including GoFundMe, Databricks, GoodRx, Linktree, and You.com. The company has $88M in seed funding led by Lightspeed and Notable Capital. We're "descoping" authentication plumbing from developers' daily lives while helping organizations turn identity into a business enabler. Come join us!
The Role: We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who will help us maintain high availability of our platform and improve our CI/CD pipelines.
What You'll Do:
- Build automations on top of Pulumi
- Solve difficult problems regarding the architecture and deployment of the Descope Product
- Build infrastructure for dev teams to ship features faster and more reliably
- Build infrastructure to support very high workloads and traffic
What We're Looking For:
- 4+ years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role
- Experience managing high-scale cloud environments
- Proven ability to support and monitor 99.999% SLA systems
- Significant experience developing on AWS Cloud
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies
- Coding experience in Python or TypeScript/JS
- Close familiarity with software engineering tools, development methodology, and release processes
- Experience managing large databases (millions/billions of rows, terabytes/petabytes of data)
- Experience with Pulumi is a plus
Where You'll Be: Tel Aviv 🏙️ | Full-time, hybrid Please review the Job Candidate Privacy Notice
Why work at Descope
- Culture: Described as high-energy, transparent ("build in public"), and mission-driven. The company values owning results from Day 1 and solving hard problems at scale. The team is heavily engineering-focused ("All of us are engineers. Yes, even the CRO").
- Work Policy: Hybrid/Office presence in Los Altos, CA (HQ), with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; UK; and Germany.
- Notable Perks & Environment: The founders emphasize a fun, coffee-centric culture ("Embrace the espresso"). The company is well-funded ($88M) with a strong product-market fit and a clear, ambitious mission, offering the stability of a late-stage startup with the agility of a small team.
- Engineering Culture: Emphasis on shipping fast but not taking shortcuts ("Ship fast and slow"), embracing simple solutions, and taking a long-term view on security, scalability, and resilience. The tech stack is modern, focusing on identity protocols (OIDC, SAML, SCIM), workflows, and AI agent infrastructure.