Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · Seattle, WA · Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions using Kubernetes and Istio on AWS to enhance developer productivity and optimize cloud costs. The role involves technical leadership in designing and implementing cloud strategies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain software that enables developers to efficiently interact with our cloud infrastructure and services.
  2. Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design solutions that are intuitive, efficient, scalable, and reliable.
  3. Provide technical leadership for the Cloud Platform team to design and implement strategies for optimizing cloud costs, resource utilization, and overall performance.
  4. Lead the development of software solutions to enable engineers to seamlessly use networking, compute, and storage services within AWS and Kubernetes environments.
  5. Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement to enhance developer productivity.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of software development experience.
  • Expertise in cloud platforms including AWS and cloud-native technologies.
  • Strong programming fundamentals (ex: Java/Kotlin, Python, Go).
  • Strong understanding of software design principles and best practices.
  • Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes - especially EKS), networking, and service meshes (especially Istio).
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and practices (e.g. Terraform).
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about cloud infrastructure and platform design.

Nice to have

  • Experience with cloud storage solutions, compute resources management, and networking in AWS.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Datadog).
  • Experience with service discovery and load balancing solutions.
  • Experience with security and compliance in cloud environments.
  • Experience with generative AI coding agents such as Claude and Cursor.