Cloud
Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision.
Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together.
The Senior Cloud Engineer will report to the Engineering Manager, Infrastructure.
As the Senior Cloud Engineer, you will
- Architect, own, and evolve critical AWS infrastructure and multi-account cloud foundations that power Earnest’s high-availability, regulated lending platform.
- Define and drive service reliability standards (SLOs, observability maturity, and incident response frameworks) across engineering teams to systematically reduce MTTR and prevent repeat incidents.
- Lead the design and adoption of scalable Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and CI/CD tooling, treating internal infrastructure as a product that accelerates developer velocity.
- Partner with Security to embed automated security-first patterns and regulatory controls directly into the cloud lifecycle.
- Drive cloud cost efficiency across the platform by identifying architectural optimizations and establishing resource utilization standards.
- Mentor Cloud Engineers and software teams through technical design reviews, operational runbooks, and blameless post-incident analyses to raise the bar on engineering excellence.
About You
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and managing reliable, scale-