Cloud Engineer II
$120k - $150k USD
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 Cloud Engineer II will report to the Director of Infrastructure
As the Cloud Engineer II, you will:
- Own and improve AWS infrastructure components supporting high-availability production systems, contributing to reliability, performance, and security standards.
- Strengthen reliability and observability by improving SLOs, monitoring, alerting, automation, and reducing MTTR through durable post-incident fixes.
- Build and enhance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, Ansible, modern tooling) to improve scalability, deployment safety, and developer experience.
- Drive operational excellence through automation, cost optimization (FinOps awareness), strong documentation, and active participation in a blameless on-call culture
Your Impact:
- As a Cloud Engineer II, you will help power the cloud infrastructure behind Earnest’s lending platform—where reliability, security, and performance directly support customer trust in a regulated fintech environment.
- You’ll take ownership of defined infrastructure domains within a modern, cloud-first ecosystem built on infrastructure-as-code, strong observability, and security-first principles.
- Working alongside senior engineers, you’ll strengthen system reliability, reduce operational toil through automation, and continuously improve the scalability and resilience of mission-critical financial system; growing your expertise while contributing to a high-ownership, collaborative engineering culture.
About You:
- 3+ years of experience supporting production cloud infrastructure in modern environments
- Strong Linux/UNIX fundamentals and hands-on experience operating systems in production
- Practical experience with AWS and core cloud services in high-availability environments
- Experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable systems)
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and how they apply in distributed systems
- Experience supporting relational databases in production environments
Even Better:
- A reliability-first mindset and a strong sense of ownership over the systems you support
- A bias toward automation and reducing operational toil
- Systems thinking — you look for root causes and durable improvements, not quick fixes
- An interest in cloud security best practices and operating in regulated environment
Where:
- This role will be based in the US.
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A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future.
Pay Range
$120,000—$150,000 USD
Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including:
- Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
- Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
- Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
- Robust tuition reimbursement program
- $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
- Competitive days of annual PTO
- Competitive parental leave
What Makes an Earnie:
At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other:
- Every Second Counts: Speed is our competitive advantage. Our customers need better solutions, and the faster we execute, the greater our chance of success.
- Choose To Do Hard Things: We win by tackling the hard things that others avoid, fueled by grit and resilience.
- Pursue Excellence: Great companies, teams, and individuals never settle and are proud of the work that they do. What’s good enough today won’t be good enough tomorrow. Excellence isn’t a destination; it’s a mindset of continuous improvement.
- Lead Together: Our success comes from how we work together. Leadership is not about titles—it is about action. We take ownership, drive results, and move forward as a team.
- Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously: We take our work seriously, not ourselves. The stakes are high, but a sense of humor keeps us grounded, creative, and resilient.
At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.
Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.