Possible · 6 months ago
Staff DevOps Engineer
Seattle, Washington
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $225K/yr
8+ years expPossible Financial is a Public Benefit Corporation focused on redefining consumer finance to help communities access affordable credit products. The Staff DevOps Engineer will take ownership of the AWS infrastructure, enhance security practices, and optimize deployment processes while collaborating with engineering teams to improve operational standards.
FinanceFinTechLendingCreditFinancial Services
Responsibilities
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
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
Qualification
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)
Benefits
Significant stock options
Comprehensive benefits
A bonus plan
A 401 (k)
Commuter benefits
Excellent office space with complimentary drinks and food
Company
Possible
At Possible, we believe financial health is something everyone deserves.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Engineering and Development
Marketing
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$47.5MKey Investors
Union Square VenturesCanvas PrimeUnlock Venture Partners
2022-05-03Series C· $20M
2020-10-20Debt Financing· $0M
2020-05-20Series B· $11M
Leadership Team
Anthony Huang
Co-Founder & CEO
Prasad Mahendra
Co-Founder
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