Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Tala
Financial services in emerging markets
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Financial services in emerging markets
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build a modern credit infrastructure where consumer credit is more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7 years of total experience in DevOps and infrastructure automation
- 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure automation preferably in AWS
- Experience and understanding in modern microservices-based cloud architecture
- Prior experience working closely with Product, Engineering, and SecOps on shift-left strategies, CI/CD tools and solutions needed
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production
- Experience with Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins or ArgoCD
- Experience with Logging and Monitoring tools such as Sumo, Splunk, Datadog etc
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to document and explain technical details and concepts clearly and concisely
- Flexibility to pitch in where needed across program and team
- Strong influence and teamwork skills; sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating, and decision-making skills
- Experience working effectively with global teams in multiple time zones
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of professional development training and experience
What the job involves
- We are on the lookout for a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, implement, and maintain innovative infrastructure and applications in AWS public cloud environments
- With a DevOps mindset and adherence to best practices, you will apply your world-class expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and automation to create powerful solutions for seamless deployment, monitoring, and automated remediation
- Automate infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds AWS using IaC tools such as Terraform
- Design and manage Continuous deployment using Kubernetes, ArgoCD and Jenkins
- Monitor applications and services within the environments & be part of the on-call rotation to resolve issues and implement strategies to prevent future occurrences
- Configure and manage observability tools such as Instana, SumoLogic, Datadog for application performance monitoring, alert integration with Slack and PagerDuty
- Learn about technologies outside of your realm of expertise that help drive innovation and robust solutions
- Work collaboratively with engineering to develop/deploy our systems
- Work with global team and participate in on-call support
Our take
Billions of people across the globe are unable to access traditional forms of credit, typically because of a lack of credit history or inconsistencies in their records. When making credit decisions, banks will rely on third party credit scores, whilst online lenders look at an applicant's financial history.
Tala is addressing this shut-out segment with an innovative model to assessing eligibility for a loan. Focusing on behavioral data tracked through its Android app, it creates a custom credit profile by analysing a customer's texts and calls logs, merchant transactions and overall app usage. Its machine learning algorithms then evaluate individual risk and provide instant loans.
More than 2 million people in emerging markets in countries such as India and Kenya have borrowed through Tala. The business has lent over $1 billion to consumers to date and is now scaling up its operations in India. It does face competition from the likes of Branch, but has nonetheless made promising strides thus far.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2021
$145m
SERIES E
Aug 2019
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $350.7m
Company benefits
- Opportunities to travel to the international offices (Mexico City, Nairobi, Manila and Bangalore)
- Free massages in the office
- Healthy snacks
- Every Tuesday an expert teaches a master class
- Sponsorship opportunities to attend professional conferences
- Ping pong
- Intramural leagues
- Go-karting
- Workout classes
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Shivani Siroya
(Founder & CEO)Shivani has worked as an Analyst for Credit Suisse, UBS Financial Services, Citigroup, Janani and the United Nations Population Fund. They are also a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum.
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