Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

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Staff Cloud Operations Engineer joining Cloud Ops team at a fintech helping workers achieve financial freedom. Collaborating and improving cloud infrastructure and incident response capabilities.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $185,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructure engineeringGCPobservability toolsmonitoringloggingtracingPythonBashJavaGo

Soft Skills

cross-functional collaborationincident responsecommunicationproblem-solvingteam coordinationsecurity-informed judgmentautomation mindsetdocumentationmetrics collectionon-call support