Staff DevOps Engineer, SoFi
$134.4-231k
+ Bonus
Mobile & online personal finance services
Posted today
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Posted today
$134.4-231k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform. Familiarity with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines
- Programming Skills: Proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, or similar
- System Knowledge: Strong understanding of networking, compute, and storage in cloud environments
- Problem-Solving Ability: Able to break down complex issues and balance technical depth with business context
- Collaboration Skills: Strong communication skills with a focus on empathy, transparency, and team alignment
- Founders Mindset: Comfortable with change, eager to learn, and willing to mentor. Founders mindset is a specific set of attitudes and behaviors that are often associated with early-stage, high-growth companies and their founders. It's a mindset characterized by a bold mission, a frontline focus, and an owner's mindset, which can be crucial for a company's sustained success and ability to adapt to market changes
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure Engineering team, where we aim to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions that support all of SoFi.
- Our team focuses on building shared services and is made up of four core areas: DevOps (product enablement), SRE (resiliency and availability), Security (Zero Trust and perimeter), and End Point (user devices and tooling)
- We value diverse perspectives, strong engineering fundamentals, and a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Whether you’re from a startup, enterprise, self-taught, or university-trained background, if you love solving infrastructure challenges and building highly available and reliable systems, we want to hear from you
- Build Scalable Solutions: Design and develop a unified platform for compute, storage, networking, and authentication on AWS using infrastructure-as-code tools. As a Staff DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for bridging development and operations, focusing on automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and continuous delivery. You will help design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure cloud solutions and mentoring junior engineers. A key aspect of this role is using IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage and automate infrastructure
- Solve Technical Challenges: Apply sound judgment and creative thinking to tackle complex issues, balancing technical trade-offs and business goals
- Drive Project Success: Take ownership of projects that span teams, resolve escalations, and help ensure timely delivery and alignment
- Manage Risk: Identify and communicate risks to ensure they’re addressed proactively with proper mitigation strategies
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with engineering, security, product, and other stakeholders to understand needs and build shared success
- Adapt and Innovate: Iterate quickly, learn from experimentation, and help improve systems and processes
- Champion Improvements: Look for opportunities to improve our tools, pipelines, and practices — and take initiative to make things better
- Infrastructure Management - One of the primary responsibilities of a Staff DevOps Engineer is managing the infrastructure. This goes beyond just setting up and maintaining development, testing, and production environments. You will be responsible for ensuring that the infrastructure is secure, scalable, and reliable. This includes implementing security measures to protect against cyber threats, optimizing the infrastructure to handle high traffic loads, and ensuring that backups and disaster recovery plans are in place
- Continuous Learning - In addition to managing the infrastructure, Staff DevOps Engineers also have to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in infrastructure management. They continuously evaluate new tools and technologies that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the infrastructure, and implement them when appropriate
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets them apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster, and strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral and continues to strengthen its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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