Staff Software Engineer, Cloud FinOps
Staff-level engineer driving company-wide cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives across engineering teams. Requires 5+ years infrastructure experience and 2+ years FinOps/cloud cost management.
Sr/Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Senior/Staff SRE responsible for building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure on GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, and observability tools to ensure reliability and scalability of fintech systems.
Chicago, ILRedwood City, CADevOps / SREHybrid6+ YOE
About the role
Responsibilities
- Write Terraform modules for deploying infrastructure resources via GitLab pipelines
- Develop Helm charts for deploying services and jobs in Kubernetes clusters
- Define metrics, network policies, and routing rules for Istio service mesh
- Monitor and maintain GCP BigQuery and Spanner databases
- Pipe metrics to Google-managed Prometheus and build Grafana dashboards and alerts
- Experiment with GCP offerings, third-party vendors, and open-source tools to automate and secure operations
- Leverage LLM models in developing infrastructure and tooling
- Pair with engineering leads to instrument and monitor critical functionality
- Add automation to existing and new systems to reduce reliance on manual processes
- Participate in architecture design and capacity planning discussions
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale cloud-native infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio or similar service mesh
- Experience with SQL databases such as MySQL, Google BigQuery, and Google Spanner
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka and Amazon Kinesis
- Experience with pub/sub technologies such as AWS SNS and Google Pub/Sub
- Experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions/Cloud Run
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals
- Experience with SOC2 compliance processes
Nice-to-Haves
- Comfortable wearing many hats in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to learn, teach, and provide/receive feedback
- Desire to automate processes and tinker with new technologies
Skills
TerraformKubernetesDockerIstioGCPBigQuerySpannerPrometheusGrafanaKafka
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