Junior DevOps Engineer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Yotpo is leading the next era of trust and loyalty in eCommerce. With AI-powered Reviews and Loyalty solutions, we help brands turn browsers into customers and customers into advocates. Through deep integrations across the eCommerce ecosystem and the trust of over 30,000 global brands, Yotpo delivers seamless omnichannel experiences that increase conversion, strengthen customer relationships, and drive profitable, long-term growth.</p></div><p><em>You’ll join Yotpo’s&nbsp;<strong>Cloud Foundation</strong> group. We bring <strong>DevOps, FinOps, and Security</strong> together under one mission, alongside our <strong>DevOps Club</strong>: engineers from across R&amp;D who train with us and build with us because they want to. What we’re building is the infrastructure foundation solid enough to power <strong>AIDLC</strong>, the AI-driven development lifecycle every Yotpo team now ships with — and the <strong>agentic infrastructure</strong> that lets engineers and AI agents work side by side, safely, at scale<strong>.</strong> As a Junior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be an integral, equal member of the group having the chance to work beside seasoned experts in a friendly and open team atmosphere.</em></p> <h3><strong>Why Join Us</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Quality-first culture:</strong> Work within an engineering community that champions consistent standards, result-based decisions, and continuous improvement.</li> <li><strong>Learn from builders:</strong> Pair with Tech Leads and senior engineers who model engineering excellence and share knowledge through reviews, forums, and workshops.</li> <li><strong>Modern toolkit:</strong> Everything-as-code, GitOps, full CI/CD, deep observability — and AI assistants and agents woven into the daily workflow.</li> <li><strong>Real scale, real ownership:</strong> World-class experts, cutting-edge cloud technologies, and production systems where your work is visible from day one.</li> <li><strong>Clear growth path:</strong> Structured feedback and mentorship to help you master fundamentals and take on more ownership quickly.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Simplify, Optimize and Modernize company’s infrastructure to support Yotpo’s ever-growing scale, owning tasks from planning through deployment and monitoring.</li> <li>Contribute to our agentic infrastructure: the runtimes, tooling, integrations, and guardrails that let AI agents operate safely against our systems.</li> <li>We believe in visibility — you will help us put eyes where they are missing, improving monitoring, alerting, and observability.</li> <li>Debug applicative and infrastructure issues at scale; take part in resolving and preventing production incidents.</li> <li>Automate away toil: pipelines, self-service tooling, cost and reliability improvements for the engineering teams you serve.</li> <li>Participate in code and design reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback to raise the bar.</li> <li>Leverage modern dev tools (AWS, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, AI assistants and agents) thoughtfully — critiquing and iterating rather than accepting output blindly.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Required Skills</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Experience:</strong> 0–2 years as a software engineer in Python, Java, Golang, or similar (internships/co-ops count). You love OOP design, design patterns, and clean code.</li> <li><strong>Education:</strong> BSc in Computer Science — a must.</li> <li><strong>Foundations:</strong> Working knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes, Linux, Git and networking fundamentals.</li> <li><strong>Hands-on ability:</strong> Strong design and troubleshooting skills — you debug in the terminal, not only in theory.</li> <li><strong>Autodidact:</strong> You are not afraid to dive deep into new technologies, including AI tooling that changes month to month.</li> <li><strong>Mindset:</strong> A team player with a strong sense of ownership. We win together: we do what it takes, we figure it out, we help each other — and we win, as a team.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Certification and/or experience with AWS</li> <li>Certification and/or experience with Kubernetes</li> <li>Infrastructure as code (Terraform / Terraform Cloud)</li> <li>Experience with Helm</li> <li>Experience designing and building GitOps CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)</li> <li>Experience with the HashiStack (Consul, Vault)</li> <li>Experience with CDNs (Akamai, CloudFront)</li> <li>Experience with databases (MySQL / MongoDB / Elasticsearch)</li> <li>Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus / Grafana / Coralogix / OpenTelemetry)</li> <li>Interest in cloud cost efficiency (FinOps) or cloud security — both live inside our group</li> <li>Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or MCP-based integrations — personal projects count</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we offer:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Track to success – work in a dynamic organization with ambient and laid-back office atmosphere</li> <li>Individualized career development, rewards, and recognition.</li> <li>Work-life balance – 25 days paid vacation with add-ons for loyalty, regular team buildings and celebrations in and outside the country</li> <li>Additional health insurance package</li> <li>Internal mobility program and refer-a-friend program</li> <li>Managing a fixed monthly budget for social benefits thru Re:Benefit – a flexible online benefits solution</li> <li>Food vouchers</li> <li>E-learning portals and knowledge sharing sessions.</li> <li>Company-backed hackathons, Tech conferences, workshops, events, etc</li> <li>Stocked kitchen and bar.</li> <li>Flexible hybrid capacity (3 days in the office per week)&nbsp;</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p>#LI-Hybrid</p></div>