Mission Lane · 12 hours ago
Cloud Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $125K/yr
5+ years expMission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company focused on providing fair and clear credit to all customers. The Senior/Principal Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the cloud-native infrastructure platform on Google Cloud Platform, ensuring platform reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness while driving technical innovation.
CreditFinanceFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain Mission Lane's GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) based cloud infrastructure on GCP
Build and evolve platform capabilities including service mesh (Istio), API gateway (Solo Gloo), observability stack (Prometheus/Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo), and GitOps tooling (ArgoCD/Kargo)
Architect scalable, resilient, and secure solutions that align with business requirements and industry best practices
Drive infrastructure decentralization efforts and champion microservice-based architectures
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Kubernetes Config Connector, and Helm
Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate deployments, testing, and operations
Create self-service tooling and automation that improves engineering productivity and reduces operational toil
Implement GitOps practices and ensure all infrastructure changes are version-controlled and auditable
Design and implement cloud networking solutions including VPCs, service meshes, load balancers, and firewall rules
Configure and optimize North-South and East-West traffic patterns
Collaborate with InfoSec to ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure platform availability and rapid incident response
Develop and maintain runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and cost optimization
Establish and track SLIs/SLOs/error budgets for platform services
Mentor and grow teammates through code reviews, pairing sessions, and knowledge sharing
Support application engineering teams with onboarding services to the platform and troubleshooting issues
Lead technical discussions and contribute to architecture decisions
Document platform capabilities, best practices, and procedures
Foster a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence
Qualification
Required
5+ years of production experience operating infrastructure as code, cloud-native, container-based, multi-tenancy environments (7+ years for Principal level)
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments
Strong experience with cloud networking concepts including SDNs, VPCs, load balancers, service meshes, and firewalls/WAFs
Proficiency in programming/scripting languages: Bash and Python required; Golang is a plus
Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Kubernetes Config Connector, Helm, or similar)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
Strong understanding of observability principles and tools (metrics, logging, tracing)
Demonstrated sense of ownership and pride in their work
Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to collaborate across teams
Ability to participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
Preferred
Production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio preferred)
Experience with API gateway solutions: Solo Gloo or Istio
Experience with Cloudflare
Experience with GitOps tooling: ArgoCD and Kargo
Experience with observability stack: Prometheus/Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo
Background in networking with experience designing and troubleshooting complex network architectures
Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team growth
Contributions to open-source projects or technical community involvement
Benefits
Full health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible Spending Account (for medical and childcare expenses)
Paid parental leave
401k Company Match
Generous PTO
Flexible schedules
A Calm App subscription
Paid time off
Monthly wellness stipend
Disability coverage
Life insurance
Remote-friendly work environment
Company
Mission Lane
Mission Lane is a consumer finance company dedicated to helping everyone have access to fair and clear credit. It is a sub-organization of LendUp.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$675MKey Investors
Oaktree Capital ManagementGoldman Sachs,Oaktree Capital Management
2024-02-16Series Unknown
2022-06-15Series Unknown· $25M
2021-10-27Series Unknown· $150M
Leadership Team
Brandon Black
Chief Executive Officer
Semyon Fishman
Head of Debit Card Engineering
Recent News
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2025-06-24
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