Earnin is hiring a
Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join EarnIn as a Staff Platform Engineer and lead the strategic design, automation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure. As a senior technical leader on our Platform team, you will shape the future of EarnIn's cloud platform, influencing operational efficiency and customer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, managing large-scale, high-availability, customer-facing distributed systems
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding senior engineers, driving technical decisions, and leading company-wide cloud initiatives
• Mastery of public cloud providers, specifically AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, etc.)
• Strong expertise in containerized microservices running on Kubernetes, with the ability to guide the implementation of complex, scalable solutions
• Deep knowledge of automation and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible) with the ability to lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives
• Experience with advanced observability tools (DataDog, CloudWatch) and driving metrics-driven decisions across the organization
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, and business teams to align cloud strategies with business goals
• Strong adherence to industry best practices around privacy and security, with a demonstrated ability to lead compliance efforts

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key architect and thought leader in the cloud infrastructure domain, guiding the team on best practices for building resilient, high-performance systems
• Mentor and coach senior engineers across the company in advanced cloud operations practices
• Provide oversight of hosted Linux and Windows systems, networks, databases, and applications, identifying and solving critical performance, scalability, and stability challenges across the company
• Design and develop reusable components and operational strategies to enhance cloud systems' scalability, performance, and monitoring
• Lead the establishment and continuous evolution of infrastructure-as-code best practices, driving automation, self-healing, and security standards throughout the company’s cloud ecosystems
• Drive operational cost savings through service optimizations, autoscaling strategies, and distributed processing architectures, partnering with the finance team to ensure ongoing efficiency
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including security, engineering, and business teams, to ensure that operational strategies align with company-wide objectives
• Continuously evaluate existing tools and processes and lead efforts to socialize, present, and implement enhancements for optimal operational efficiency
• Develop high-quality documentation on best practices, installation, provisioning, and configuration. Ensure organizational alignment on cloud operations standards
• Participate in and lead on-call rotations, using post-mortems to guide long-term improvements to system reliability
• Act as a liaison between cloud operations and business stakeholders, presenting technical information in an understandable format, ensuring alignment between technical decisions and business objectives