DevOps Engineer | Arixa Capital

Ziphire.hr•Santa Monica, CA

2h•$100,000 - $130,000•Remote

About The Position

Arixa Capital is a leading private real estate lender and alternative investment manager with over $7 billion in originations completed since inception and a servicing portfolio exceeding $2 billion as of December 31, 2025. We're more than a lender. Our vertically integrated platform allows us to manage every step of the loan process in-house, ensuring speed, reliability, and an exceptional experience for our clients. Backed by a substantial balance sheet, top-tier institutional partners, and a talented operations team, we're positioned for continued growth and innovation. At Arixa, our culture is one of our strongest assets. We foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performing environment where team members are empowered to grow, take ownership, and make an impact. Our team thrives on solving problems, celebrating wins, and driving results—together. We've been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for three years running, and we're just getting started. Arixa provided Inc. de minimis compensation to be considered for the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. For a full description of ranking methodology, please visit: https://www.inc.com/inc-5000-methodology-how-we-selected-these-companies.html. Position Overview We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who specializes in Salesforce delivery at scale—owning CI/CD, environment strategy, automated testing, packaging, and release governance across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and integrations. You'll build and run opinionated pipelines (Salesforce DX), enforce branching and quality gates, and partner with admins, developers, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and frequent releases.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
3+ years of experience in DevOps or Salesforce
Familiarity with Agile methodologies
Strong problem-solving skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work in a remote environment

Nice To Haves

Salesforce certifications preferred
Experience with automated testing frameworks

Responsibilities

Own CI/CD for Salesforce
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Salesforce DX (sfdx/sf), Git (GitHub/GitLab/Azure Repos), and a release toolchain (e.g., Copado/Gearset/AutoRABIT/Jenkins).
Define branching strategy (e.g., trunk-based or Gitflow), merge policies, code review standards, and automated validation.
Manage sandboxes, scratch orgs, and packaging: org shape, seeding, data masking, and refresh cadence.
Establish source-driven development with unlocked/second-gen packages when appropriate.
Integrate unit and integration tests (Apex tests, Jest for LWC), metadata diffs, and deployment validation (check-only).
Set quality gates (test coverage thresholds, rulesets) and break-glass procedures.
Run release trains, release notes, approvals, and change calendars.
Maintain deployment runbooks and back-out plans.
Enforce least privilege, profile/permission set migration, Health Check, Shield (if licensed), secrets management, and audit trails.
Implement monitoring and alerting on deployment pipelines and platform limits; track MTTR, change failure rate, and deployment frequency.
Orchestrate data migrations (Data Loader, sfdmu, Bulk API 2.0) with idempotent scripts and mapping.
Coordinate with integration platforms (MuleSoft, Boomi, Kafka, Azure) for versioned, backward-compatible changes.
Champion metadata rationalization, dependency management, and legacy remediation.
Coach engineers/admins on DevOps best practices; drive continuous improvement.