Staff Cloud Engineer

Early Warning Services

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Scottsdale, AZChicago, ILSan Francisco, CANew York, NY
Employment
Full-time
Posted
75 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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About Early Warning Services

Early Warning Services is a fintech company that operates the Zelle person-to-person payments network, the Paze digital checkout wallet, and Certos fraud prevention and identity risk solutions for financial institutions.

Early Warning Services currently has 83 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $145,000–$177,000 across 35 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Cloud Engineer

The Staff Cloud Engineer - Contract joins the engineering team to develop, test, and deploy complex solutions within the payments and risk management domain. This role involves building technical strategies for broad requirements, driving architecture design, and leading the execution of production delivery. Key responsibilities include leading infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs, and building tools for reliable cloud deployments. The candidate will utilize AWS services like EC2, S3, and Lambda, alongside open-source technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. Technical skills required include Java/Spring, Maven/Gradle, and experience with CI/CD pipelines, networking, and distributed systems. The position focuses on simplifying cloud complexities, ensuring system robustness, security, and observability while maintaining the integrity of financial data and supporting high-scale distributed datacenter operations.

What does a Cloud Engineer earn?

Median $152167 from 44 postings across 12 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build technical strategies and architectures for complex requirements and large open-ended problems.
  • Drive all aspects of technical design, prototyping, and implementation to support product needs.
  • Lead the development of technical plans, backlogs of stories, and execution through production delivery.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to conceptualize and build new features.
  • Develop and implement tests to ensure application quality, performance, and scalability.
  • Lead infrastructure-as-code projects and design APIs for reliable cloud deployments.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems spanning multiple layers of the technology stack.
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes to ensure system integrity and security.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
  • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field is typically required.
  • Candidates must have eight or more years of relevant related experience.
  • Candidates must have seven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, or microservices.
  • Candidates must have six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring and proficiency with Maven/Gradle.
  • Candidates must have two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions with hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks.
  • Candidates must have hands-on experience with Docker and experience designing/developing scalable systems.
  • Candidates must have experience with cloud infrastructure, event-driven architecture, and knowledge of mature engineering practices like CI/CD and SDLC.

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