Staff DevOps Engineer - Remote

Make Choteau Home; Montana; Remote; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to architect and scale its cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate is curious and innovative, ready to drive change in the industry and support collaborative engineering efforts. This position offers competitive compensation, substantial benefits, and a dynamic work environment focused on continuous learning.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance

Employer-funded life and disability insurance

11 Observed Holidays & PTO plan

Up to 12 weeks paid family leave

Continuing education reimbursement

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a senior or staff DevOps engineer.
• Deep experience managing Kubernetes in production environments.
• Expertise with observability tooling and cloud deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor junior engineers and support cross-team projects.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in processes.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Problem-solving

Kubernetes Management

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Go

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

About Figure

Figure is maximizing the value of homeownership in ways that benefit consumers and the industry alike. We’re helping homeowners tap their liquidity easily, efficiently and reasonably for purpose-driven, significant expenditures – everything from dream home renovations and debt consolidation to small business formation.

In seven years, we’ve become the country’s #1 non-bank HELOC lender. As a financial technology firm operating at the intersection of regulation and transformation, we’re a “unicorn” – a group of fewer than 1000 companies globally that is valued at $1B or more and has been in operation for less than ten years.

Our mission requires us to have a creative, team-oriented, and supportive environment where everyone can do their absolute best. We are motivated, innovative, collaborative, and curious. We value individuals who bring a problem-solving mindset to every task. Every day at Figure is a journey in continuous learning combined with a focus on getting work done that makes a difference. Join us!

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About the Role

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Figure, you will be pivotal in architecting, building, and scaling our cloud infrastructure and developer-focused platform tools. We’re looking for a curious, innovative, and collaborative engineer to help power the next generation of our direct-to-consumer financial products and drive meaningful change in the industry.

What You’ll Do

• Help improve how we work by finding and fixing what’s slowing us down and the organization down.
• Help make life easier for our engineers by building new features and services for our internal platforms.
• Tackle problems with innovative ideas, focusing on steady, iterative progress.
• Take the lead on cross-team projects that significantly impact the business.
• Support and mentor junior engineers while setting a solid example.
• Actively participate in on-call rotations and our Slack support channel.

What We Look For

• Someone who thrives on cross-functional collaboration and can work across teams to architect solutions, troubleshoot complex problems, and drive alignment. This role requires clear and effective communication with teammates, engineers, product teams, and external stakeholders.
• 6+ years of experience as a senior or staff DevOps engineer and/or SRE, managing highly available, production cloud infrastructure at scale. Experience with GCP and Private Service Connect is preferred, but not required.
• Deep experience managing Kubernetes in production environments, including building and maintaining custom operators, provisioning and scaling clusters. The ideal person would be proficient with API gateways such as Kong and Traefik, and skilled in Kubernetes configuration management using tools like Helm and Kustomize.
• Demonstrable experience writing applications and/or utilities with Go, including building JSON APIs/web servers and using standard frameworks, such as Kubernetes client-go.
• A passion for Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or OpenTofu, and a focus on streamlining workflows through automation platforms such as Atlantis, Terraform Cloud, or equivalent tools.
• Expertise with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, ELK stack) and a strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices.
• Experience automating continuous cloud deployments with tools like GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Prior experience with blockchain infrastructure is a plus, though not required.
• Demonstrates relentless curiosity, probes into problems until the root cause is found, and constantly investigates old and new technologies to drive lasting improvements.

Salary

• Compensation Range: $138,160 - $172,700
• 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
• Equity stock options package
• This is the compensation range for the United States, actual compensation may vary based on individual candidate experience, location, or evolving business needs

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans
• Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care, 401k, and commuter benefits
• Employer-funded life and disability insurance coverage
• 11 Observed Holidays & PTO plan
• Up to 12 weeks paid family leave
• Continuing education reimbursement

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Figure will not sponsor work visas for this position. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.