Senior Staff Engineer, SoFi
Cloud Platform
$172.8-297k
+ Bonus
Mobile & online personal finance services
Open for applications
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172.8-297k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2+ years in a technical leadership or equivalent senior/principal engineering role
- Deep knowledge of AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, RDS/DynamoDB) and cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, service meshes)
- Proven track record of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Python, Java, etc.) and solid understanding of distributed systems design principles
- Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale cross-functional initiatives, collaborate effectively with stakeholders, and balance business priorities with technical constraints
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including executives, product managers, and junior engineers
- History of devising creative solutions to complex infrastructure and platform challenges
- Passion for continuous improvement, optimizing cloud resource utilization, developer experience, and operational excellence
- Familiarity with security standards and compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, etc.) relevant to financial services or regulated industries
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team
- In this role, you will design, develop, and deliver the self-service abstractions and foundational cloud primitives that empower teams to build efficiently on AWS
- Your work will focus on compute, storage, networking, and authentication, providing scalable, secure, and reliable building blocks that allow other teams to accelerate development and innovation
- You will collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across the company to drive architectural decisions, influence best practices, mentor engineers, and own large-scale projects from ideation to production
- Define and execute the technical strategy for core cloud platform services—including compute (EC2, Serverless), storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), networking (VPC, routing, service meshes), and authentication (AWS IAM, custom auth flows)
- Lead the design and implementation of self-service frameworks and tooling that allow product teams to spin up secure, scalable infrastructure quickly
- Champion best practices in infrastructure-as-code (IaC), ensuring consistent, repeatable, and automated provisioning of cloud resources
- Architect scalable, reliable, and highly available systems that handle the platform’s growth and evolving needs, ensuring low latency and strong performance
- Implement security and compliance best practices for authentication and identity management, collaborating with security teams to safeguard customer data and meet regulatory requirements
- Innovate to reduce complexity and accelerate the adoption of new cloud technologies, proactively identifying and solving bottlenecks in infrastructure or tooling
- Collaborate with product teams, security, DevOps, and other engineering organizations to understand requirements, identify gaps, and deliver solutions that simplify the developer experience
- Serve as a key technical advisor to leadership, influencing roadmaps, participating in planning sessions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Mentor and guide engineers across the organization, sharing best practices in design patterns, system architecture, cloud-native development, and operational excellence
- Act as a thought leader, presenting technical concepts and recommendations to diverse teams and senior leadership
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and collaboration—setting high standards for code quality, reliability, and maintainability
- Drive observability (logging, monitoring, tracing) strategies that ensure proactive detection of issues in compute, storage, networking, and auth layers
- Define and track service-level objectives (SLOs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the availability, performance, and cost efficiency of platform services
- Own complex incident resolution, guiding teams on root-cause analysis and ensuring continuous feedback loops to improve system resilience
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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