Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Figure, a leading non-bank HELOC lender, as a Staff DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in architecting, building, and scaling our cloud infrastructure and developer-focused platform tools. Help improve our workflows, build new features for internal platforms, and tackle problems with innovative solutions. Lead cross-team projects, mentor junior engineers, and actively participate in on-call rotations. This role requires strong collaboration skills and experience with Kubernetes, Go, Infrastructure as Code, and observability tooling. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 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
• Deep experience managing Kubernetes in production environments, including building and maintaining custom operators, provisioning and scaling clusters
• 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
• Demonstrates relentless curiosity, probes into problems until the root cause is found, and constantly investigates old and new technologies to drive lasting improvements

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GCP and Private Service Connect is preferred, but not required
• 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
• Prior experience with blockchain infrastructure is a plus, though not required

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