Cloud Engineer

North One is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our high performing team 🚀. We are a remote-first, venture-backed startup at the heart of the FinTech movement and we’re  reshaping financial services and banking for small businesses across America. We are backed by some of the best VCs in the world and are solving important problems. 

Our product & mission

North One is a business banking and financial management platform for small businesses across America. We don’t stop at being a faster, easier and simpler version of a bank - we’re focused on creating better financial outcomes for our customers by changing the definition of what a bank can do.  We’re building a digital finance department for every small business in America with our business bank account as its foundation. 

Our mission is to build a connected business banking and financial management platform that lets anyone run a successful small business. Our team believes deeply in the transformative power of entrepreneurship and wants to democratize taking ownership of your economic independence.

Our team

As our Cloud Engineer, you’ll work with our world-class Engineering team. Reporting to our Principal Architect, you’ll be joining a team who have helped build companies like Chime, Twitter, Instacart, E-Trade, McKinsey, Etsy, eBay and more. 

We’re a team of A-players who are all-in on solving big, important problems. Feeling it?

REQUIREMENTS

As our Cloud Engineer, you will be loved by developers, trusted by product, and feared by intruders at the gate.

Some of what you will be doing includes:

• Maintain a cost controlled, secure, and compliant AWS infrastructure, AWS IAM, and AWS network at North One
• Collaborate with engineers and project teams to develop well-architected applications in the cloud
• Empower engineers to streamline DevOps, accelerate deployments, and fortify security across the development life-cycle
• Monitor security reports, security events, infrastructure reports, infrastructure events, and overall cloud security

The skills required for this role - 

• You have 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production cloud infrastructure
• You have 2+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, Helm, or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• You have 1+ year of experience managing AWS Serverless services, such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and EventBridge
• You get excited working with complex and secure architectures (eg. distributed, stateless, ephemeral)
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working closely with both technical and business stakeholders
• You have experience working in an Agile scrum team, using Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, etc.)

Bonus points - 

• You have experience with SSO, OIDC, SAML
• You have experience in Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust, VLANs or other isolation and secure network techniques
• You have experience building and/or maintaining VPN & Advanced Networking (Site-to-Site, Subnet design)
• You have AWS practitioner certifications or completion of relevant AWS engineer courses.

Our Tech Stack 💻- 

• Client-side: TypeScript, ReactJS, React Native, CSS, HTML5
• Server-side: TypeScript, NodeJS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, ElasticSearch, Redshift, other AWS serverless tools
• Tools: AWS, Slack, Github + Actions/CircleCI, Jira, Serverless Stack Framework, AWS CDK, Pulumi, Sentry, Lumigo 
• Integrations: Intercom, Segment, Mandrill, Plaid
• Cloud: AWS Cloudformation, Serverless-First Architecture, AWS Managed Services, Control Tower, AWS Organizations, AWS Identity Center, Google BigQuery, Google APIs, Google Cloud Run Functions

BENEFITS

As a valuable member of North One’s team, you’ll get:

• Family coverage of top-tier health/dental benefits: Get the right coverage for what matters most.
• Remote-first work: You decide where you work. You can work from home, visit one of our in-person hubs, or work while you travel.
• Professional development budget: Enjoy an annual budget to deepen your expertise
• Unlimited paid time off: We measure success around outcomes, not hours worked.
• Powerful gear: We’ll make sure you have the right tech to do your best work.
• Market range for this role at North One is $110,000-$125,000 CAD

Few people have been trained for this sort of role, and research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they haven’t satisfied every requirement. If you are this close to what we’ve described, but aren’t sure, apply. Let’s figure out together if this is where you could shine.
North One is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. We welcome all applicants regardless of race, colour, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or national origin.