Senior Staff DevOps Engineer, SoFi
$156.8-269.5k
Eligible for a bonus and long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Be an early applicant
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$156.8-269.5k
Eligible for a bonus and long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 12+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related field, with a demonstrated track record of technical leadership and organizational development
- Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of DevOps tools and technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS/GCP/Azure, Ansible, and GitOps
- Process Improvement: Experience in Lean, Agile, or similar methodologies focused on process improvement and cultural transformation
- Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization
- Mentorship: Proven ability to mentor, train, and guide other engineers, fostering a growth mindset and continuous learning culture
Desirable
- Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or similar certification
- Organizational Development: Knowledge or experience in organizational development frameworks, change management practices, or team dynamics optimization
- Project Management: Familiarity with project management tools and methods (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with a focus on organizational development to drive our DevOps transformation across both technical and cultural dimensions
- This position blends technical leadership with a strategic approach to process enhancement, teamwork, and alignment
- As a key contributor to our DevOps initiatives, you will collaborate with diverse, cross-functional teams to standardize best practices, promote automation, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement within our engineering organization
- This role is ideal for someone with substantial DevOps experience who is passionate about fostering organizational growth and empowering teams
- Design and implement DevOps strategies that align with organizational goals, fostering a culture of collaboration, agility, and innovation
- Lead initiatives focused on improving team dynamics, communication, and alignment to support efficient and scalable engineering practices
- Identify and address process gaps and inefficiencies across teams, recommending organizational improvements that support DevOps maturity
- Guide teams in implementing scalable CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code solutions that align with industry best practices
- Establish and enforce DevOps standards, guidelines, and metrics to drive consistency and reliability in deployment and operations
- Collaborate with engineering and operations leaders to define infrastructure and application monitoring requirements, ensuring optimal performance and security
- Act as a liaison between development, operations, and other departments to improve coordination and streamline DevOps workflows
- Mentor engineers and operations staff on DevOps principles, tools, and practices, fostering a culture of learning and knowledge sharing
- Lead training sessions, workshops, and other initiatives to promote DevOps practices across the organization
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance processes, reduce waste, and increase efficiency
- Champion a DevOps mindset across the organization, encouraging a collaborative approach to problem-solving and a proactive attitude toward change
- Measure and communicate the impact of DevOps initiatives, reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) and suggesting adjustments to maximize effectiveness
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Put our member's interests first – if we take care of our members' interests, it will best serve our interests.
- Run after problems – we must build a culture of people who run after problems in order to ensure we execute with excellence and “things” do not fall through the cracks.
- Embrace diversity, everyone should feel welcome, included and able to contribute – diversity is a differentiator and our team should reflect society. We should continue to encourage and celebrate diversity.
- Get to the truth and make principle-based decisions – we can only make the best decisions if we have the right data, all of the perspectives, and if we align on the guiding principles.
- Make your footprint bigger than your foot – selfless acts are critical to elevate beyond the impact of our collective individual efforts.
- Do the right thing, if you're not sure, do the harder thing – our business is built on trust and integrity, which requires both adhering to the letter of the law and regulations and doing the right thing for the company and our members..
- Set ambitious goals, be gritty, be accountable - we must hold ourselves and others accountable for delivering our business objectives, for our culture, and for our member.
- Take care of other people and help them grow - our people are our greatest differentiator, if we take care of our people, they will take care of our members.
- Iterate, learn, innovate - we are all responsible for innovation and we must embrace data-driven decisions.
- Be SoFi missionaries - our products, our services, our brand, and our business must be durable over the long term to achieve our mission—be a missionary.
- Don’t forget to smile - our ambition is contagious: it makes us smile to see people inside and outside of SoFi succeed.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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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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