SRE I

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE I)

About OppFi

Join OppFi, a leading Fintech company dedicated to expanding financial inclusion and building better financial health for everyday Americans. We leverage technology and partner with banks to offer responsible, transparent financial products, providing options for consumers often overlooked by traditional systems.

We’re more than just a platform; we’re a team of caring, innovative, and inclusive individuals who thrive on diverse talents, expertise, and perspectives. At OppFi, we’re driven by the belief in seeing what *could* be and continuously improving 1% every day. Our collaborative culture ensures the best ideas always rise to the top. If you’re passionate about making a real impact in the financial system by facilitating credit access, promoting financial health, and delivering exceptional customer service, you’ll fit right in.

Our commitment to excellence is recognized: we’re a top-rated consumer financial platform with a 4.5/5.0 star rating on Trustpilot, a 2025 Crain’s Fast 50™ company, and named on Built In’s 2025 Best Places to Work in Chicago.

Your Impact: The Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE I) at OppFi, you’ll play a crucial role in scaling and automating our infrastructure on AWS. Working closely with our DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams, you’ll be instrumental in automating key processes to support our growing portfolio of products and services.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

– Design and implement scalable deployment patterns and tools for feature development teams, focusing on technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Lambda on AWS.

– Automate infrastructure and service deployments using Terraform, YAML, and Bash scripts.

– Champion observability across our tech stack by enhancing logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerts, seamlessly integrating these into our CI/CD pipelines.

– Collaborate with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve production challenges, identifying opportunities for further automation.

– Lead migration efforts for legacy technologies and environments to a fully automated EKS platform.

– Continuously improve our observability and automation capabilities across all environments.

– Actively participate in and contribute to a culture of learning and growth, expanding your skills and helping teammates do the same through internal training, budget for classes, conferences, and materials.

– Work effectively in a remote-first environment (this is a US-based remote-capable position).

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a motivated engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable systems. Your experience and skills will be key to our team’s success:

– Minimum 1+ years of experience with a major Cloud Platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

– Minimum 1+ years experience with Container Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS, Swarm).

– Minimum 1+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / Configuration Management tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack).

– Minimum 1+ years experience working in Linux environments.

– Minimum 1+ years experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Jenkins).

– Minimum 1+ years experience with logging, metrics, and alerting tools (e.g., DataDog, Sumologic, FluentD, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk).

– Proficiency in scripting (Bash or similar languages).

– Experience with at least one non-Bash programming language (e.g., Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C#, C/C++).

– Ability to thrive in a collaborative remote environment, actively participating with camera on to foster connection.

– A strong drive for simplicity and building robust, maintainable systems.

– Bonus points for experience with security scanning tools, AWS Multi-Region configurations, and Clumio.

Why Join Us?

Joining OppFi means becoming part of a mission-driven company that invests in its people. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to support your well-being and career growth:

– Competitive compensation: We believe in fair and equitable pay. The range for this role is $85,600 – $128,400 USD, with final offers based on experience and qualifications.

– Opportunity for performance-based bonuses and equity potential.

– Flexible, remote work environment (US-based).

– Generous Paid Time Off.

– 401(k) match program.

– Comprehensive health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision).

– Tuition reimbursement and a focus on continuous learning with a budget for training, conferences, and materials.

– Additional perks like DoorDash DashPass, Figo pet insurance, Rocket Lawyer, LinkedIn Learning, and access to Fringe, a lifestyle benefits platform.

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Ready to Apply?

If you are excited by the opportunity to leverage technology to make a real-world impact and build scalable systems in a supportive, innovative environment, we encourage you to apply!

Legal & Compliance

OppFi is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building an equitable workplace. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristics.

As part of our commitment to providing equal opportunity, OppFi will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation. If you require accommodation for the application or interview process, please contact our People Team at recruiting@oppfi.com.

For California residents, please review the OppFi California Employee Privacy Policy on our careers page for details on personal information collection and your rights.

This job description provides general information and is subject to change at OppFi’s discretion.

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