Staff DevOps Engineer

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Seattle, WA
Hybrid
Senior level
Consumer Web • Fintech • Mobile • Social Impact • Software
Possible brings financial fairness to underserved communities.
The Role
The DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer will manage AWS infrastructure, improve Terraform code, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and enforce security best practices while collaborating with engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

Since our founding, we have redefined how people approach small-dollar loans—delivering over $1 billion in funding to more than 1 million customers, issuing over 4 million loans, and saving our customers more than $500 million.

At Possible, we’re building a new type of consumer finance company; one that helps our customers stay out of debt rather than profit from their staying in it. We are a Public Benefit Corporation with the mission to help communities unlock economic mobility through affordable credit products crafted to improve financial health for generations. Join the team that’s making our goal a reality.

About the Role

We're hiring our first dedicated DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer. You'll inherit a solid foundation—our infrastructure is already in Terraform, deployments are automated, and things aren't on fire—but it's been built and maintained by generalist engineers alongside their other work. This role exists to take ownership, bring deeper expertise, and evolve our infrastructure and security practices as we scale.

You'll have significant autonomy to shape how we approach infrastructure, deployment, and security going forward.

What You'll Do

Infrastructure & Platform

  • Take ownership of our AWS infrastructure, bringing dedicated focus and deeper expertise than generalist engineers can provide
  • Evolve our Terraform codebase—improve patterns, reduce drift, enhance modularity
  • Own and improve our GitLab CI/CD pipelines, optimizing for speed, safety, and developer experience
  • Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure needs and operational best practices
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability standards
  • Lead incident response and drive root cause analysis

Security

  • Own our cloud security posture—IAM policies, network security, secrets management, access controls
  • Implement and mature security tooling (vulnerability scanning, dependency auditing, SAST/DAST)
  • Partner with compliance to ensure infrastructure meets regulatory requirements
  • Drive security best practices across engineering teams
  • Respond to and investigate security events
What We're Looking For

Required

  • 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with meaningful security experience
  • Deep expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, networking, KMS, etc.)
  • Strong experience with Terraform at scale
  • Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD and git workflows
  • Solid understanding of cloud security principles—least privilege, network segmentation, encryption at rest/in transit
  • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes or ECS)
  • Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash)
  • Comfortable being the first dedicated person in this function

Preferred

  • Experience in fintech or regulated industries
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
  • Experience implementing security tooling in CI/CD pipelines
  • Background in database operations (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Personal Attributes: Self-directed, strong technical judgment, security-minded by default, improves what they inherit rather than rewriting for the sake of it, effective communicator.

Success

Success means: infrastructure and security that gets dedicated expert attention, improved reliability and security posture, faster and safer deployments, engineering teams that trust the platform, and passing audits without fire drills. It also means providing technical leadership by proactively setting feature developers up for success through education, tooling, and automation, and establishing long-term improvement plans for our infrastructure.


With the backing of our venture investors— Union Square Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Euclidean Capital, and Unlock Venture Partners — a dedicated following of hundreds of thousands of customers, and an extraordinary team, we are unwavering in our fight for financial fairness. As one of only a few FinTech Public Benefit Corporations, we’ve baked our dual dedication to building a profitable and socially impactful company into our charter; we only succeed when our customers do too. Give us a shout if you’d like to help us ship financial products that protect consumers from predatory lending practices and promote economic health.

Possible Finance is dedicated to financial fairness and community empowerment. We welcome diverse perspectives and experiences to help us achieve our mission of unlocking economic mobility for generations to come.

Learn more about us as a Public Benefit Company.

Top Skills

AWS
Bash
Docker
Gitlab Ci/Cd
Kubernetes
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Terraform

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The Company
HQ: Seattle, WA
120 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Possible Finance is a mission-driven fintech company focused on expanding financial access and improving financial health for the millions of Americans who struggle with traditional banking and credit systems. Our products are designed for customers who often live paycheck to paycheck, face unpredictable cash flow, or lack access to affordable credit—customers who are routinely ignored, penalized, or underserved by mainstream financial institutions.

We provide responsible, transparent, and easy-to-understand financial products that help people build stability rather than fall deeper into debt. Our offerings include short-term and installment credit designed with clear terms, flexible repayment options, and no predatory fees. We also use cash-flow and behavioral data—not just traditional credit scores—to underwrite customers more fairly, giving them access to credit when others won’t.

At the core of Possible’s model is a regulatory-first approach. We design products that meet or exceed regulatory expectations to ensure long-term sustainability and consumer protection. This gives us a unique advantage in a highly scrutinized space, where many competitors struggle or shut down due to compliance challenges. Our compliance-forward design enables us to innovate responsibly, scale confidently, and build trust with customers and regulators alike.

Operationally, Possible blends a Seattle-based technology and product team with global operations and support teams to deliver a seamless customer experience. Our platform integrates underwriting, servicing, payment flexibility, and customer support into a unified system that adapts to the real-world needs of our users.

Possible is also investing in the future of financial health. Our long-term vision extends beyond lending into solutions that help customers break cycles of instability—tools that support better cash-flow management, credit-building pathways, and long-term financial progress.

In short, Possible Finance is creating a new kind of financial platform: one designed for people who have been left out of the traditional system, built on transparency and fairness, and powered by technology, data science, empathy, and a commitment to doing what’s right for underserved consumers.

Why Work With Us

Possible Finance is a mission-driven fintech helping people improve their financial health, not deepen debt. With a regulatory-first approach, small empowered teams, and products built for underserved customers, Possible offers meaningful impact, innovation, and a unique opportunity to build for real financial progress.

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Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We are headquartered in Seattle, WA and we enjoy a hybrid work culture.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
HQSeattle, WA
Located in the Belltown neighborhood of downtown Seattle we are within walking distance of fine dining, entertainment, and the world-famous Pike Place Market. Being fully distributed we are also in your favorite neighborhood, the place you call home.

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