Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

Branch App; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Stock options

401k

Job summary

Branch is hiring a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team. The role focuses on building scalable, secure cloud infra in GCP, with strong emphasis on observability, automation, and 24/7 on-call readiness.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, proficient scripting, and hands-on experience with Docker/Kubernetes, plus security/compliance awareness. Remote within the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering.
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• 5+ years in cloud infra engineering (GCP preferred).
• Experience with observability and monitoring.
• Proficient in at least one scripting language.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Security/compliance oriented; able to operate in a 24/7 on-call env.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-functional teams and automate workflows.
• Maintain incident response and monitoring tools.
• Ensure cloud infra security and compliance.
• Design and maintain GCP infra for scalability.
• Build self-healing automation to reduce toil.
• Troubleshoot cloud/instrumentation issues.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Python

Bash

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Security/compliance

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Git

CI/CD

Job description

About the role:

We're looking for a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team

Key Responsibilities:

• Effectively coordinate with both technical and non-technical staff across departments; this role involves a good amount of cross-functional collaboration, including partnering on workflow automation (crons, n8n, Airflow) that bridges infrastructure and business processes.
• Comfortable with the process side of an Ops team: running outage incidents, working within compliance requirements, coordinating sprints, collecting metrics to report up to management, and maintaining documentation.
• Maintain and improve incident response process and tooling, ensuring accurate, reliable, and proactive monitoring across the application stack.
• Ensure that our cloud infrastructure is compliant with relevant security and regulatory standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure in GCP.
• Ensure our cloud infrastructure is scalable, secure, and highly available.
• Build automation that reduces toil and enables infrastructure to self-heal during production incidents.
• Troubleshoot issues and provide support for our cloud infrastructure and observability tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Professional, expert level experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP) with minimum 5 years experience.
• Experience with observability tools and processes, such as monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Strong experience in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, or Go.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience collaborating with network and application security teams; ability to make sound security-informed judgments is a plus.
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate work. The company provides access to Claude, and integrates Copilot and Gemini into automation workflows; we expect engineers to use these effectively and look for opportunities to apply them.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation.

Nice to Haves:

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment.
• Mentorship or technical leadership experience; comfortable directing the work of junior engineers on a project basis, though this is not a day-to-day people management role.

Compensation:

The base salary range for this role is $185-200k. The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc.

Location:

This position is classified as REMOTEwithin the United States of America.

We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.

• Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Stock options
• Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription
• Monthly home-office stipend
• 401k (TransAmerica)
• 12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Flexible time off + sick and safe time
• 11 paid company holidays
• Branch@Branch Same Day Pay Option

Identity Verification

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Working at Branch

A remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S., Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together. Learn more about what we do in this video !

Our collaborative spirit has helped us become an award-winning FinTech company, with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. Branch has been honored by Inc., the Webby Awards, Benzinga FinTech Awards, FinTech Breakthrough Awards, Top Workplaces USA, Great Places to Work, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Heartland, among others.

Branch is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer.