Senior Product Engineer DevOps📣 Job Ad

About Tamara

Tamara is a leading fintech platform operating across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region. The company's mission is to build a customer-centric financial super-app, serving millions of users and partnering with major global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, and Amazon, alongside small and medium businesses. As Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn, Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments (a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund), SNB Capital, and ********** The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.

The Role: Senior Product Engineer DevOps

Tamara is seeking a Senior Product Engineer DevOps to join its Engineering team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to establishing a reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure, enabling Tamara’s developers to deliver products efficiently and confidently. The engineer will leverage expertise in infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud-native technologies to implement and optimize core platform capabilities, ensuring a robust foundation that supports the company's growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and enforce cloud foundation and security, including environment structure, network topology, IAM, access controls, organizational policies, private connectivity, data residency, and secret management.
• Provision and manage Kubernetes clusters, implement cost-efficient autoscaling, and define deployment standards for teams.
• Develop and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, security scanning, and progressive rollout strategies (canary, blue-green).
• Establish centralized observability solutions for metrics, logs, and traces to explain production behavior and enable self-service for service-owning teams.
• Ensure resilience through tested backup and restore procedures and disaster recovery plans aligned with defined RTO/RPO.
• Improve developer experience by identifying and resolving friction points and technical debt through automation and self-service solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and conduct follow-up work to prevent recurrence.
• Contribute to engineering practice through mentoring, technical reviews, runbooks, and architectural decision-making.
• Define all infrastructure and configurations in code, utilizing tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong foundational knowledge of cloud technologies with production experience on a major provider such as GCP or AWS.
• In-depth expertise in Kubernetes, including scheduling, networking, storage, and cluster behavior under failure conditions.
• Proven experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines, including security scanning and progressive delivery techniques.
• Deep expertise in Linux, networking, and distributed systems, with the ability to debug live production problems from symptom to root cause using metrics, logs, and traces.
• Demonstrated track record of leading multiple concurrent initiatives, including surfacing risks, aligning stakeholders, and connecting platform decisions to delivery velocity and business outcomes.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, coupled with a commitment to mentoring others and enhancing engineering practices.

Preferred Skills and Attributes

• Experience in building or operating internal developer platforms, developer portals, service catalogs, or self-service infrastructure.
• Familiarity with GitOps, service mesh, policy-as-code, regulated cloud environments, or multi-region cloud operations.
• A driven, determined, and curious team player with a positive, solution-oriented outlook, demonstrating perseverance and adaptability in challenging situations.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse teams through empathy and respect, responding quickly and adapting course without losing momentum.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based at Tamara's headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves collaborating with a diverse ecosystem of engineers, product managers, and infrastructure experts to enhance reliability and enable engineering autonomy across the company.