Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Candidly
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Student debt solutions
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Student debt solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make trusted, intelligent and comprehensive solutions that enable Americans to reap the rewards of that investment so they can build financial wellness and wealth.
Role
Who you are
- You take ownership naturally — you see what needs to happen and you make it happen, and when you commit to something, it gets done
- You think and communicate beyond your immediate scope. You invest in the people around you, take informed positions on technical direction, and make the team stronger — not just the codebase
- You bring genuine energy and drive. You're energized by ambiguity, you raise the bar for yourself and others, and you don't settle for "good enough" when better is possible
- 5–7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Expert-level AWS knowledge: EC2, ELB, ASG, RDS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, CDK, and Route 53
- Solid understanding of Linux administration and networking concepts (VPNs, VPC peering, NAT, DNS, firewalls)
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for container orchestration at scale using CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Excellent written and verbal English communication — you can translate tradeoffs for engineers and stakeholders alike
- Comfortable working remotely and independently
- Moderate-level Azure experience, with comfort operating across multi-cloud and multi-region environments
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, or similar)
- Strong proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, and Ansible
- Deep understanding of monitoring and logging with systems and strategies (AWS Cloudwatch, Datadog, Azure Monitor)
- Hands-on experience with high-availability architectures and auto-scaling strategies
- Solid grasp of AWS security best practices: IAM, encryption, Secrets Manager, and security auditing
- Experience with databases (MySQL, Postgres, Redshift)
- Familiarity with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Fargate)
- Knowledge of database replication strategies
Desirable
- Experience in a high-growth, regulated industry (Fintech), specifically in architecting and scaling infrastructure to maintain reliability and compliance under rapid user and transaction volume growth
- Proven technical leadership experience, including improving infrastructure processes
- AWS Professional-level certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional)
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures (SNS, SQS, EventBridge)
- Experience in cost optimization strategies for AWS environments
- Experience in compliance frameworks (SOC, NIST, ISO, CCPA, GDPR)
- Experience integrating AWS services with third-party tools for observability and security
- Experience with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures, as well as client on-premises deployment systems
- Familiarity with scalable, reproducible ML pipelines, tools, and frameworks (Kubeflow, MLflow, Amazon SageMaker)
- Data engineering experience and large-scale data processing and storage
- Knowledge of Jira and Confluence, including best practices for ticket management and KPI tracking
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of our cloud infrastructure
- This is a role for someone who brings both technical depth and genuine curiosity — someone who sees an opportunity to improve something and goes after it, who takes problems end-to-end, and who makes the engineers around them better just by being present
- You'll partner closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure our infrastructure strategy stays ahead of our product ambitions
- You'll also be a key voice in shaping how we build — our standards, our reliability posture, and our operational culture
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, supporting both Candidly's AI and SaaS products
- Drive the architectural vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals and surfacing risks before they become problems
- Own and enforce best practices for infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD, and automated deployments
- Take the lead on automating and accelerating SDLC processes — identifying bottlenecks in how we build and ship, and designing solutions that make the whole pipeline faster and smoother, whether that involves AI-assisted tooling or traditional automation
- Serve as a subject matter expert on cloud architecture, containerization, and observability
- Lead incident response and post-mortems with a focus on systemic improvement, not just immediate fixes
- Proactively identify and close gaps before they compound
Our take
A lack of access to affordable higher education is causing increasing numbers of students to fall into debt. Common advice is to simply save money incrementally, but that is easier said than done. Today, over 48M Americans struggle with over $1.75M of student debt. Candidly, rebranded from FutureFuel.io, offers payment management services for student loans in the form of employee benefits.
The company collaborates with employers to make loan repayment processes easier. Candidly claims that these services help students save between $15,000 to $40,000 and reduce loan repayment time by up to 5 years. Other companies such as Tuition.io also provide employer-paid student benefits to help contribute to debt repayments. However, Candidly's unique set of digital money saving tools provide an edge over competitors by helping students make small savings that can accumulate to big debt payments.
With increasing nationwide interest in reducing student debt, the company experienced 10x revenue growth and a 3,600% increase in payments flowing through its platform through 2022. With a fresh injection of funding in March 2023, Candidly is well-positioned to shake up this field, and it will be exciting to see what it does next.
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Insights
51% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20.5m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.8m
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Laurel Taylor
(Founder, CEO & Chairwoman of the Board)Majored in Organizational Behaviour and Spanish at Texas State, before studying for an MBA at MIT's Sloan School. Was VP Sales at Systems Integrations Companies, and then CRO & Executive VP at TEECOM. Joined Google as Head of Industry, Health in 2013. Is a member of philanthropic organization SheGives and the Student Debt Task Force. Founded Candidly in 2016.
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