Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Figure, a leading non-bank HELOC lender, as a Staff DevOps Engineer. You will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling our cloud infrastructure and developer tools. This position requires collaboration with various teams to architect solutions, troubleshoot problems, and drive alignment. You will improve workflows, build new features, and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure management. Figure offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Someone who thrives on cross-functional collaboration and can work across teams to architect solutions, troubleshoot complex problems, and drive alignment
• 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