Software Engineer II (CloudOps)

Fundrise; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work environment

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Fundrise is seeking a Software Engineer II to design and improve the AWS-based CloudOps platform that powers our engineering teams. You will contribute to a multi-account AWS setup, shared CDK constructs, and GitHub Actions pipelines.

You’ll work on a small, high-visibility team of 3 engineers delivering scalable infrastructure, guardrails, and cost governance across accounts while collaborating with application engineers and security teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a software engineer or DevOps/CloudOps engineer.
• 3 years hands-on experience with AWS in production, including networking, security and access management.
• 2 years hands-on experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized applications on AWS.
• Strong programming skills in Python or JavaScript, with working knowledge of Java; comfortable in Unix and Bash.
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to work well with application engineers.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and experience applying them in infrastructure and automation work.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure as code, including contributions to our shared construct library.
• Build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines that deliver our applications and infrastructure.
• Run and improve container deployments on ECS and ECR (blue/green releases, health checks, troubleshooting), and Lambda and serverless services.
• Work through Security Hub findings and controls with the owning teams, and help embed guardrails in how we ship.
• Support cost visibility and governance across accounts (budgets, anomaly alerts, tagging).
• Support engineering teams' infrastructure needs and maintain clear supporting documentation.
• Use AI tools to speed up infrastructure, automation and documentation work.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Unix Bash

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

GitHub Actions

CodePipeline

CDK

Job description

Fundrise's CloudOps team builds and runs the AWS platform that our engineering teams deploy on, a multi-account AWS organization, a shared CDK construct library, GitHub Actions pipelines, and the security and cost guardrails around them. As a Software Engineer II you will build and improve that platform, and help engineers across the company use it well. You will work on a small team of 3 engineers, which creates high visibility and impact across the entire organization.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure as code, including contributions to our shared construct library.
• Build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines that deliver our applications and infrastructure.
• Run and improve container deployments on ECS and ECR (blue/green releases, health checks, troubleshooting), and Lambda and serverless services.
• Work through Security Hub findings and controls with the owning teams, and help embed guardrails (SCPs, tagging and tag-based access) in how we ship.
• Support cost visibility and governance across accounts (budgets, anomaly alerts, tagging).
• Support engineering teams' infrastructure needs and maintain clear supporting documentation.
• Use AI tools to speed up infrastructure, automation and documentation work.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years as a software engineer or DevOps/CloudOps engineer.
• 3 years hands-on experience with AWS in production, including networking, security and access management, compute and storage.
• 2 years hands-on experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized applications on AWS.
• Strong programming skills in Python or JavaScript, with working knowledge of Java; comfortable in Unix and Bash.
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to work well with application engineers.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and experience applying them in infrastructure and automation work.

Preferred Qualifications

• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline.
• CDK experience, including building reusable constructs.
• Multi-account AWS: networking, governance and permissions.
• AWS security tooling and working through compliance findings.
• AWS data services and database migrations.
• Observability and FinOps practice.

Benefits at Fundrise

• Remote-first work environment (must live in the United States)
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, with Fundrise contributing to both employee and dependent premiums
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses, dependent care, and parking
• 401(k) with 3% contributed by Fundrise, regardless of whether you are actively contributing yourself
• Fully covered life insurance and short-term disability
• Significant equity via our employee stock grant program
• Wellhub benefit including mental health resources
• Flexible PTO
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid parental leave