Senior DevOps Engineer

Self Financial, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity in the form of Stock Options

Performance-based bonuses

Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Educational assistance

Free gym membership

Casual dress code

Team building events

Remote work arrangements

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Self Financial, Inc. is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to enhance our production infrastructure. You will work closely with developers to provide feedback, drive operational improvements, and participate in our on-call operations.

Applicants should have a deep understanding of AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and modern web application frameworks. Our compensation includes a competitive salary range of $130,000 - $160,000 annually and various benefits like company equity and flexible vacation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of administration experience with AWS.
• Experience in a high-performance, 24x7 team.
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational improvements in production infrastructure.
• Document processes with appropriate detail.
• Measure and optimize system performance.

Skills

AWS administration

SRE/SysOps/DevOps experience

Version control (e.g., Git)

Scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS services

Job description

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.

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.