Senior DevOps Engineer, Ephemeral Infrastructure

Our client is a leading AI-driven lending marketplace transforming how banks and credit unions evaluate creditworthiness and deliver frictionless digital lending experiences. Their platform enables instant approvals for the majority of borrowers, improved access to affordable credit, and stronger financial outcomes for consumers and lenders alike.

They operate as a digital-first organization, with employees across the U.S. and hubs in San Mateo, Columbus, and Austin. Team members join because they are energized by the mission: creating effortless, fair credit access powered by modern AI systems and data-driven infrastructure.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help architect and scale the foundational infrastructure powering pre-production environments across engineering. This includes designing the next generation of Kubernetes-based “Ephemeral Infrastructure” used for development, automated testing, demos, and security validation.

You will:

• Design, build, and evolve the company’s Ephemeral Infrastructure platform.

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with Ephemeral environment tooling.

• Drive significant improvements to internal tooling, developer experience, and infrastructure automation.

• Enable engineers to rapidly spin up isolated, fully functional test environments for development, QA, penetration testing, customer demos, and more.

• Create world-class internal documentation, standards, and workflows that promote tool adoption.

• Own infrastructure reliability and partner with engineers to ensure performance, scalability, and simplicity.

Minimum Requirements

• 5 years in DevOps, SRE, or comparable infrastructure-focused role.

• 5 years of deep, hands-on Kubernetes production experience (designing, deploying, operating).

• Strong proficiency with Golang (required).

• Extensive production experience with AWS services—EKS, EC2, S3, networking, IAM.

• Advanced Linux expertise (architecture, debugging, performance, operations).

• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automation, IaC, and container orchestration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Architect (CKA, CKAD).

• Experience designing or maintaining Kubernetes operators.

• Strong CI/CD experience: automated pipelines, test coverage, deployment workflows.

• Broad DevOps expertise: scripting, infrastructure as code, configuration management, automation.

• Familiarity with tools like ArgoCD, Artifactory, Harness, or similar platforms.

• Strong collaboration skills and experience thriving on remote, distributed teams.

• Base Salary: $163,600 – $226,400

• Bonus: Target bonus included

• Equity: Included

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA contributions

• 401(k) with 100% match up to $4,500 (immediate vesting)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid holidays, vacation, sick leave, and safety leave

• Parental, family care, and military leave programs

• Annual wellness, technology, and ergonomic reimbursements

• Quarterly team onsite sessions (travel fully covered)

• Employee groups, onsite events, and volunteer programs

• When on-site: catered lunches, snacks, and beverages