Staff Software Engineer, SoFi
Observability
$153.6-264k
+ Bonus + Long Term Incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Be an early applicant
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153.6-264k
+ Bonus + Long Term Incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a seasoned engineer who excels at the intersection of software development and infrastructure, we encourage you to apply
- Experience: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. 7+ years of software development experience
- Expertise: Expertise in enterprise observability best practices and curating monitoring and logging tools at scale (Datadog, Elastic, Splunk, etc). Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and related tools (e.g. ArgoCD, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD)
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java or similar. Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and practices (e.g.Terraform)
- Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to tackle complex technical challenges and deliver innovative solutions that align with business goals
- Leadership: Ability to influence and drive technical strategy within a team and across departments. Experience leading large-scale projects with significant impact
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences
Desirable
- Experience developing observability automation
- Familiarity with LLM observability tools, techniques, and methodologies
- Experience with Open Telemetry and Open Telemetry collectors
- Experience with security and compliance in cloud environments
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team to design and enhance our observability tooling, enabling engineers to understand application behavior effectively
- In this role, you will shape the direction and architecture of our observability platform, focusing on developer enablement, best practices, and system reliability
- You will also be responsible for developing infrastructure as code solutions and managing data pipelines to ensure seamless data collection and processing
- Design, write, and maintain software that enables developers to efficiently interact with our observability platform
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design solutions that are intuitive, efficient, scalable, and reliable
- Provide technical leadership for the Observability team to design and implement strategies for improving observability standards, optimizing costs, and enabling product teams
- Lead the development of software solutions to enable engineers to seamlessly use metrics, monitors, traces and logs
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement to enhance developer productivity
- Collaborate with engineers and vendors to integrate solutions seamlessly into cloud environments
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in observability and software engineering
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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