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Senior DevOps Engineer
Sunbit
- Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
About
The Company:
Sunbit builds financial technology for real life. Our AI-native platform helps more people get to “yes” at the moments that matter with personalized offers, transparent terms, and no added consumer fees. In stores, practices and service centers across the country, Sunbit provides a fast, fair pay-over-time option. For everything else, the Sunbit Credit Card delivers a modern, no-fee credit experience managed in a powerful mobile app.
We are guided by people-centered values: Serve Others Before Self, Include Always, Connect Genuinely, Innovate for Good. These values shape how we build, how we support customers and merchants, and how we work with each other.
What makes Sunbit different is an AI-native infrastructure that runs through the full customer and merchant journey. Our interconnected AI systems power instant decisioning, streamline fraud checks with human-in-the-loop safeguards, and enable highly personalized offers at scale. The result is a quick, fair, and simple experience for consumers and merchants.
We pair this technology with inclusion and transparency. Sunbit delivers industry-leading approval rates — 90%+ in auto service and 85%+ in dental — while maintaining zero consumer fee-based revenue. It is a better way to serve people and merchants, proven at scale.
Today, Sunbit is available across nationwide, in-person merchant network of 30,000+ locations spanning auto service centers, dental and optical practices, veterinary clinics, and other specialty services. We help teams say “yes” more often and help customers move forward with confidence.
The Role:
Sunbit is looking for an experienced, independent Senior DevOps Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You will join our centralized DevOps team, serving as a pillar of reliability and innovation for the entire engineering organization.
This is a 50/50 “Build vs. Run” role. Splitting your time between building modern automation and improving our developer experience and operational excellence, ensuring our production environments are rock-solid, secure, and highly available while managing the live environment from server infrastructure all the way to the application.
Requirements What You'll Own:
Design and implement next-generation CI/CD automation flows to streamline the path from “Code” to “Production.”
Lead the evolution of our Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to make our systems more modular and self-service for developers.
Collaborate with backend teams to architect scalable microservices and optimize datastore performance (RDS, MongoDB).
Embrace AI-powered development tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to automate toil and accelerate infrastructure delivery.
Full ownership of our AWS accounts and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
Manage and fine-tune live production environments, ensuring 99.9% uptime for our mission‑critical fintech services.
Drive our Observability strategy (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively catch issues before they impact our customers.
Participate in a weekly on‑call rotation, serving as the first line of defense for platform reliability.
What You 'll Bring:
5+ years of experience managing high‑scale production systems.
Mastery of AWS: Deep knowledge of AWS services, security best practices, and account management.
Orchestration & Containers: Expert‑level experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker.
Automation‑First Mindset: Proficiency in Terraform and at least one high‑level language (Python, Go, or Bash).
Database Ops: Solid understanding of the DevOps aspects of MySQL/RDS and MongoDB (scaling, backups, performance tuning).
SRE Discipline: Strong experience with monitoring and logging stacks like Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
Team Player: Strong communication skills and a “can‑do” attitude—you enjoy solving problems as part of a collaborative squad.
Advantages:
Security Knowledge: Experience with FW, WAF, IPS/IDS, and SELinux.
Data Infrastructure: Familiarity with Data tools like Kafka, Spark, Snowflake or Data Lakes.
Multi‑Cloud: Familiarity with hybrid or multi‑cloud architectures.
The Perks:
Join one of LA’s fastest growing startups (2023), A Most Loved Workplace, #576 on the 2023 Inc 5000 list, and Forbes Fintech 50 (2024)
Mission driven + empowered + collaborative
Competitive pay and stock options
Unlimited PTO
Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, FSA, & Parental Leave
Newly added HSA and Pet Insurance
401K Plan with Matching
Cell Phone Stipend
Casual Dress
Team based strategic planning + Team owned deliverables
How We Pay:
We believe in paying fairly and equitably based on a number of factors including but not limited to previous experience, relevant work history, interview performance, geographical location, internal equity, and expected level of ownership.
We are targeting a salary of $150,000-195,000 per year for this role
This role will also be granted company equity via stock options
Sunbit is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to provide a professional & welcoming workplace for all employees.
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Languages
- English
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