Cloud Engineer

### Who you are
- 3+ years of experience supporting production cloud infrastructure in modern environments
- Strong Linux/UNIX fundamentals and hands-on experience operating systems in production
- Practical experience with AWS and core cloud services in high-availability environments
- Experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable systems)
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and how they apply in distributed systems
- Experience supporting relational databases in production environments
- A reliability-first mindset and a strong sense of ownership over the systems you support
- A bias toward automation and reducing operational toil
- Systems thinking — you look for root causes and durable improvements, not quick fixes
- An interest in cloud security best practices and operating in regulated environment

### What the job involves
- Own and improve AWS infrastructure components supporting high-availability production systems, contributing to reliability, performance, and security standards
- Strengthen reliability and observability by improving SLOs, monitoring, alerting, automation, and reducing MTTR through durable post-incident fixes
- Build and enhance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, Ansible, modern tooling) to improve scalability, deployment safety, and developer experience
- Drive operational excellence through automation, cost optimization (FinOps awareness), strong documentation, and active participation in a blameless on-call culture
- As a Cloud Engineer II, you will help power the cloud infrastructure behind Earnest’s lending platform—where reliability, security, and performance directly support customer trust in a regulated fintech environment
- You’ll take ownership of defined infrastructure domains within a modern, cloud-first ecosystem built on infrastructure-as-code, strong observability, and security-first principles
- Working alongside senior engineers, you’ll strengthen system reliability, reduce operational toil through automation, and continuously improve the scalability and resilience of mission-critical financial system; growing your expertise while contributing to a high-ownership, collaborative engineering culture

### Benefits
- Remote-first flexibility
- Monthly & annual remote work stipends
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- $1000 annual travel perk
- Robust 401K package
- No meeting Thursdays
- Annual company-wide offsites