Senior DevOps Engineer

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.

We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.

Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will deploy, monitor, and maintain the production environment/services, taking a holistic view of system health, while ensuring that our platform is stable and balanced. Self's DevOps Engineers are a blend of pragmatic operators and software developers that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our infrastructure. You will report to the Manager, DevOps Engineering.

What you'll do:

Work closely with Developers to provide feedback and drive operational improvements within our production infrastructure

Develop infrastructure and network best practices

Participate in our on-call operations and monitoring pool

Document processes and procedures with the appropriate level of detail

Create, maintain, extend, and operate the SDLC platform used to build, test, package, and deploy our web and mobile services and applications

Measure and optimize system performance to push our capabilities forward, get ahead of customer needs, and innovate to continually improve

Provide primary operational support for large, distributed software applications

Production performance and uptime analysis

What you'll bring:

5+ years of administration experience with AWS

5+ years of experience within a high-performance, 24x7, SRE/SysOps/DevOps team

5+ years of experience with a version control system (e.g., Git)

Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python or Bash)

2+ years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

Experience with the following technologies:

Build and scale AI-native infrastructure - automating CI/CD, observability, and incident response with Claude at the core of the workflow

Modern web application frameworks

Pipeline-based SDLC automation such as GitLab, Jenkins Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, or other automation tools

Delivering services via containers to AWS

Working in a security and compliance-sensitive industry or environment

Working knowledge of the following:

DNS

HTTP/HTTPS

Linux

SSH/SCP/SFTP

Ability to be flexible, multi-task, and organize priorities in a fast-paced work environment, while maintaining a high level of focus and accuracy

And these skills are a bonus:

Experience maintaining RDBMS systems (PostgreSQL preferred)

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science

Experience with MLOps (DevOps for Machine Learning)

Base salary range: $130,000 - $160,000 annually. Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.

Benefits and Perks:

We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.

Our perks include:

Company equity in the form of Stock Options

Performance-based bonuses

Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage

Flexible vacation policy

Educational assistance

Free gym membership

Casual dress code

Team building events and activities

Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule

Paid parental leave

Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities. We appreciate your understanding.