Senior DevOps Engineer

About Nexla

Nexla is the leading Integration platform, built with AI, for AI. Nexla takes a metadata driven approach to converge diverse integrations across Data, Documents, Agents, Applications, and  APIs into a single design pattern. We accelerate the development of solutions for GenAI, Analytics, and Inter-company data. Nexla makes data users and developers up to 10x more productive by delivering a true blend of no-code, low-code, and pro-code interfaces.

Leading companies including DoorDash, LinkedIn, Johnson & Johnson, and LiveRamp trust Nexla for mission-critical data. Named in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools and top-rated by customers on Gartner Peer Insights, Nexla is a remote-first company headquartered in San Mateo, California.

At Nexla, our culture is built around our core values: Have Empathy, Be Curious, Be Intellectually Honest, Achieve Excellence, and Remember to Relax. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do, foster a data-driven mindset, take ownership of our work, and believe in the power of teamwork to achieve ambitious goals.

Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be the backbone of Nexla’s high-scale, AI-driven integration platform. We are seeking a dedicated infrastructure expert to ensure our systems run flawlessly as we process billions of rows of data for top-tier enterprises. By taking ownership of our core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes environments, you will directly accelerate our engineering team's productivity and guarantee the reliability of mission-critical data flows. This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of a product that is defining the next wave of intelligent, context-aware data movement.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Management: Take end-to-end ownership of Amazon EKS infrastructure, specifically managing the creation, scaling, and seamless version upgrading of clusters.
• CI/CD Automation: Design, implement, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI to ensure rapid, secure software delivery.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure utilizing IaC principles with Terraform.
• Configuration Management: Automate server provisioning and application deployment processes, primarily using Ansible.
• Cloud Architecture & Security: Design and explain AWS architectures while identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures through continuous vulnerability assessments.
• Operational Excellence: Drive engineering teams toward SecDevOps best practices and create monitoring dashboards by integrating API statuses and application logs.
• Incident Management: Perform root cause analysis and lead incident management to facilitate rapid iteration and massive growth.
• Collaboration: Partner with SREs, L2/Support, and developers to deploy and scale new product features and improve production monitoring in a large-scale Linux environment.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of total experience, with a strong focus specifically in DevOps and SRE.
• EKS Mastery (Must Have): Proven hands-on experience in the creation and upgrading of Amazon EKS clusters.
• CI/CD Expertise (Must Have): Deep understanding of continuous integration practices and CI/CD methodology for both containerized and non-containerized applications.
• IaC (Must Have): Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (and AWS CloudFormation).
• Configuration Management: Experience with configuration management tools; Ansible is highly preferred (experience with Chef or Salt is also valued).
• Technical Breadth: Strong understanding of Linux systems administration, networking, and large cluster orchestration
• Cloud Services: Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, and API Gateway.
• Programming: Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a proven ability to coordinate effectively within a team and with customers.

Why This Might Be Worth It

• Impact at scale from day one. Your code processes billions of rows for companies like DoorDash and LinkedIn.
• The AI wave is real for us. We're not bolting AI onto a legacy product. Intelligent connectors, context-aware data movement, and agentic workflows are the core of what we're building next.
• Small team, big problems. You'll have direct access to the CTO, real influence over product direction, and the autonomy to make significant technical bets.
• Recognized platform with startup energy. The credibility of enterprise validation with the speed and ownership of an early-stage company.

Location and Compensation 

Pune(highly preferred) or Bengaluru

Why Build Your Future at Nexla? We are standing at the precipice of the GenAI revolution, but the biggest bottleneck isn't the models, it's the data. By joining Nexla, you aren’t just entering a company; you are stepping into the critical layer of the modern data stack that powers the AI economy. We are the Data Fabric that enables industry titans like LinkedIn, DoorDash, and J&J to turn messy, siloed data into ready-to-use products for RAG and predictive models. This is your opportunity to move beyond simple tooling and build the actual infrastructure that democratizes data access for the next decade of innovation. If you want to solve the hardest problems in data engineering and own a piece of a market projected to hit billions, your career belongs here.