Senior DevOps Engineer

About Pagaya

Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit pagaya.com.

About the Role     

We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong cloud-native mindset to build, maintain, and evolve our highly scalable, highly-available cloud infrastructure. This role is pivotal in driving operational excellence, security, and automation across our entire engineering organization. You will promote communication, integration, and collaboration to significantly enhance our software development productivity and reliability. You'll work closely with engineering and product teams to streamline delivery, enforce platform standards, and enable a high-velocity development environment—all while keeping reliability and security top of mind.

Responsibilities

• Design, Automate, and Manage complex cloud infrastructure on AWS using best-in-class Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Lead the operation and enhancement of our production Kubernetes environments (EKS), focusing on automation, security, observability, and seamless CI/CD integration.
• Drive continuous improvement across platform tooling, developer experience, and operational processes to meet our ambitious performance and uptime goals.
• Implement and enforce security-first infrastructure patterns, including strong IAM, network segmentation, and secure secrets management.
• Actively contribute to high-level technical design discussions and cross-functional architectural decision-making, ensuring solutions align with long-term platform strategy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or in a similar infrastructure-focused role.
• Strong hands-on expertise across the AWS Stack (e.g. EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda).
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code - Terraform or equivalent.
• Deep operational knowledge of Kubernetes, including architecture, cluster management, networking, and advanced debugging in production environments. 
• Strong expertise in designing and managing CI/CD methodologies and platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Github Actions).
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, DataDog, Coralogix (OTEL), Grafana etc.
• Proven prior experience building and maintaining highly-available, production-grade, and service-oriented systems.
• Strong scripting and automation background in languages such as Python or Bash.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to articulate complex technical needs and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Networking - an advantage.

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs, and we are now 500+ strong in New York, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv.

We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We believe great solutions are built through a great community.

• Advance Inclusion- We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors.
• Be Accountable Together- We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.
• Continuously Learn- We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
• Debate and Commit- We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together.
• Dream Big and Act- We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy.

More than just a job

We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life. 

Pagaya is an equal opportunity employer. Pagaya is encouraging diversity and actively seeking applicants from all backgrounds, as are committed to creating a diverse workforce together with an inclusive environment for all. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, skills, and business needs.