Remote Staff DevOps Engineer

Description:

• Figure is a financial technology firm focused on maximizing the value of homeownership for consumers and the industry.
• The company has become the country’s #1 non-bank HELOC lender within seven years and is valued at over $1 billion.
• The Staff DevOps Engineer will be responsible for architecting, building, and scaling cloud infrastructure and developer-focused platform tools.
• The role involves improving workflows, building features for internal platforms, leading cross-team projects, and mentoring junior engineers.
• The engineer will also participate in on-call rotations and support channels.

Requirements:

• Candidates must thrive on cross-functional collaboration and communicate effectively with teammates, engineers, product teams, and external stakeholders.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience as a senior or staff DevOps engineer and/or SRE, managing production cloud infrastructure at scale is required.
• Deep experience managing Kubernetes in production environments, including building custom operators and scaling clusters is essential.
• Proficiency with API gateways such as Kong and Traefik, and Kubernetes configuration management tools like Helm and Kustomize is preferred.
• Demonstrable experience in writing applications or utilities with Go, including building JSON APIs/web servers is necessary.
• A passion for Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or OpenTofu, and experience with automation platforms is required.
• Expertise with observability tooling and a strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices is needed.
• Experience with automating continuous cloud deployments using tools like GitHub Actions and ArgoCD is required.
• Prior experience with blockchain infrastructure is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Candidates should demonstrate relentless curiosity and a commitment to investigating problems and driving improvements.

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 are provided.
• Employer-funded life and disability insurance coverage is included.
• Employees receive 11 observed holidays and a PTO plan.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave is offered.
• Continuing education reimbursement is available for employees.