Senior Infrastructure/Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Stilt is a mission-driven (YC W16) fintech startup focused on providing loan access and banking services to immigrants and other underserved applicants. We are building a product to improve financial inclusion and democratize access to credit, such as providing loans with no cosigner required and low-interest rates with no hidden fees. Founded by an immigrant team with expertise in finance, technology, and machine learning, Stilt has now served immigrants from 150+ countries!

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will:

- Lead infrastructure engineering projects to improve banking infrastructure to handle exponential growth.

- Make sure infrastructure is stable 24x7.

- Add cloud monitoring solutions to debug infrastructure issues faster and increase the reliability of Stilt's systems.

- Build close partnerships with other tech teams at Stilt to ensure that Stilt's infrastructure is at the cutting edge of technologies.

- Mentor, guide, advocate, and support the career growth of other individual contributors in the organization.

- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives such as scalability and performance enhancements.

You will be a great fit for the role if you:

- You are knowledgeable about Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystem.

- You have experience deploying and scaling microservices

- You know NGINX, uWsgi/Gunicorn very well

- You lean towards a data-driven approach to solving dev-ops and infrastructure-related problems.

- You have real-world experience in continuous integration and delivery.

- You are comfortable coding in python, or you know other languages well enough that picking up python quickly won't be an issue.

- You have prior experience working with a geographically distributed organization.

- You understand the tradeoffs of in-delivery design decisions.

- You have at least 7 years of industry experience across the areas listed above.