Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.
We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will deploy, monitor, and maintain the production environment/services, taking a holistic view of system health, while ensuring that our platform is stable and balanced. Self's DevOps Engineers are a blend of pragmatic operators and software developers that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our infrastructure. You will report to the Manager, DevOps Engineering.
What you'll do:
- Work closely with Developers to provide feedback and drive operational improvements within our production infrastructure
- Develop infrastructure and network best practices
- Participate in our on-call operations and monitoring pool
- Document processes and procedures with the appropriate level of detail
- Create, maintain, extend, and operate the SDLC platform used to build, test, package, and deploy our web and mobile services and applications
- Measure and optimize system performance to push our capabilities forward, get ahead of customer needs, and innovate to continually improve
- Provide primary operational support for large, distributed software applications
- Production performance and uptime analysis
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years of administration experience with AWS
- 5+ years of experience within a high-performance, 24x7, SRE/SysOps/DevOps team
- 5+ years of experience with a version control system (e.g., Git)
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python or Bash)
- 2+ years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
Experience with the following technologies:
- Build and scale AI-native infrastructure - automating CI/CD, observability, and incident response with Claude at the core of the workflow
- Modern web application frameworks
- Pipeline-based SDLC automation such as GitLab, Jenkins Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, or other automation tools
- Delivering services via containers to AWS
- Working in a security and compliance-sensitive industry or environment
Working knowledge of the following:
- DNS
- HTTP/HTTPS
- Linux
- SSH/SCP/SFTP
- Ability to be flexible, multi-task, and organize priorities in a fast-paced work environment, while maintaining a high level of focus and accuracy
And these skills are a bonus:
- Experience maintaining RDBMS systems (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science
- Experience with MLOps (DevOps for Machine Learning)
Base salary range: $130,000 - $160,000 annually. Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.
Benefits & Perks
- Generous health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Employer-paid benefits including life, disability, and cost-containment resources
- Gym membership options through ClassPass or monthly reimbursement
- Education reimbursement program
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation bonus to move to Austin
- Referral program
- Company equity in the form of stock options
- Company performance-based bonuses
- Flexible vacation
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- ERG and inclusion opportunities
Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities. We appreciate your understanding.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of AWS administration experience
- 5+ years of experience in a high-performance, 24x7 SRE, SysOps, or DevOps team
- 5+ years of experience with a version control system such as Git
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages, such as Python or Bash
- 2+ years of Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD and pipeline-based SDLC automation tools such as GitLab, Jenkins Pipelines, or AWS CodePipeline
- Experience delivering containerized services to AWS
- Experience working in a security- and compliance-sensitive environment
- Working knowledge of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Linux, SSH, SCP, and SFTP
- Flexibility, multitasking, prioritization, focus, and accuracy in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with modern web application frameworks
- Experience maintaining relational database systems, preferably PostgreSQL
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science
- Experience with MLOps
- Successful completion of a background check
- U.S. citizenship or Green Card holder status
Self Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Self Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by Self Financial.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage are extensive, complemented by wellness and mental health programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, family medical leave, and a structured return-to-work program indicate strong caregiver support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, alongside paid holidays and sick time, provides broad time-away options for work-life balance.
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What We Do
Everyone deserves the chance to improve their financial future. We believe financial progress should be within reach for everyone. We exist to enable people to build credit, build savings, and reach their goals. Every role here connects directly to that purpose, and you'll see the impact of your work in real outcomes for real people.
Why Work With Us
It's not every day you have the opportunity to work for a company with a strong mission that has meaningful impact on people's lives. If you're searching for a higher purpose and you're passionate about helping to improve people's financial situation, then Self is just the place.
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