Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.
Papaya Global is looking for an excellent DevOps Engineer to join our growing team! You will be responsible for the development and production environments, working with the R&D teams using cutting-edge technology over AWS Cloud. You will also design, implement and maintain infrastructure, efficient CI/CD pipelines, serverless services, and Docker containers.
The DevOps Engineer will provide a technical vision to Papaya Global cloud infrastructure, promote and implement cloud security best practices, identify inefficiencies in the engineering processes, and solve them using automation.
You will:
- Design and implement Papaya Global's cloud infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments on AWS
- Ensure our production environment maintains the highest standards of stability, availability, and performance
- Review the current automation strategy partnering with stakeholders to implement a holistic, scalable solution that supports our multi-year growth trajectory
- Work with the Information Security team to improve security, enhance data isolation, access controls and network/application security across our infrastructure.
- Work closely with the R&D department in Poland, India & Israel.
- Leverage AI-powered engineering and DevOps tools to improve scripting, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, observability, CI/CD optimization, and operational efficiency across cloud and production environments
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer
- 3+ years of experience with AWS
- Experience with K8S and Microservices
- Experience with Github Actions for CI/CD Pipelines
- Proven experience with Terraform & Terragrunt for IAC
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools
- Experience leveraging AI tools for DevOps automation and optimization.
- Strong AWS networking knowledge: VPCs, subnets, security groups, and troubleshooting
- Track record of successful cross-team collaboration on company-wide initiatives (automation, security, migrations, monitoring)
- Experience implementing and maintaining secure AWS environments
- Strong problem-solving abilities with attention to detail
- Collaborative team player who thrives working independently
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
- Experience working with AWS Bedrock.
- Large-scale cloud environment experience (multi-region, high-availability)
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain custom GitHub Actions using JavaScript/Node.js
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer
- 3+ years of experience with AWS
- Experience with Kubernetes (K8S) and microservices
- Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines
- Proven experience with Terraform & Terragrunt for IaC
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools
- Experience leveraging AI tools for DevOps automation and optimization
- Strong AWS networking knowledge: VPCs, subnets, security groups, troubleshooting
- Track record of successful cross-team collaboration on company-wide initiatives
- Experience implementing and maintaining secure AWS environments
- Strong problem-solving abilities with attention to detail
- Collaborative team player who thrives working independently
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
- Experience working with AWS Bedrock
- Large-scale cloud environment experience (multi-region, high-availability)
- Ability to develop and maintain custom GitHub Actions using JavaScript/Node.js
What We Do
Imagine controlling all your global payroll and payments from a single place, supported by certified experts who keep you compliant in every country, even when laws change. No more juggling third parties. No more foreign bank accounts. No more repetitive manual work. Finally, there’s one platform that gives you total control of your global operations, from creating local contracts automatically to paying workers in the local currency of 160+ countries. It’s called Papaya Global, and we’d love to show it to you. Papaya Global: How the world gets paid









