Senior Cloud Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design, manage, and enhance essential AWS infrastructure and multi-account cloud foundations for Earnest’s high-availability, regulated lending platform.

• Establish and implement service reliability standards, including SLOs, observability maturity, and incident response frameworks.

• Spearhead the adoption of scalable Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD tooling.

• Collaborate with the Security team to integrate automated security patterns and regulatory controls into the cloud lifecycle.

• Promote cloud cost efficiency through architectural enhancements and resource utilization standards.

• Provide mentorship to Cloud Engineers and software teams through technical design reviews, operational runbooks, and blameless post-incident analyses.

• Report directly to the Engineering Manager of Infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in building and managing reliable, scalable cloud systems.

• Extensive working knowledge of AWS core services, Linux environments, and networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and VPCs.

• Demonstrated experience in scaling Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/OpenTofu.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

• Familiarity with relational databases and contemporary observability toolstacks.

• Background in automating repetitive tasks.

• Strong sense of ownership and curiosity; ability to navigate ambiguity while focusing on sustainable solutions.

• Excellent and approachable communication skills across engineering, security, and product teams.

• Experience in fintech or regulated financial environments, including SOC2, PCI compliance, FinOps, developer self-service platforms, internal developer tools, AI/ML workloads, or AI operational tools is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual performance-based bonus.

• Equity options.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits, along with savings plans.

• Mac computers and a work-from-home stipend to establish your home office.

• Monthly reimbursement for internet and phone expenses.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Extensive tuition reimbursement program.

• $1,000 travel benefit on each Earnie-versary to any destination worldwide.

• Competitive annual PTO days.

• Generous parental leave policy.