Principal Engineer – Cloud

🕒 June 30

🌵 Arizona, California, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $173k - $242k / year

⏰ Full Time

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Early Warning

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1001 - 5000 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🔒 Cybersecurity

Fintech • Banking • Cybersecurity

Early Warning is the digital backbone that connects, protects, and advances the everyday financial economy. It operates network-shared platforms and brands—most notably Zelle (a person-to-person payments network), Paze (tokenized checkout tied to bank relationships), and Certos (identity and payment risk solutions)—that enable fast payments, reduce fraud, and help banks and credit unions serve consumers and small businesses. Early Warning partners with thousands of banks and credit unions, reports broad adoption (150M+ enrolled consumer and small business accounts) and large transaction volumes (over $1. 2 trillion sent via Zelle in 2025), and uses shared data and analytics to screen transactions and prevent fraud across the banking sector.

📋 Description

• Define and lead cloud engineering strategy, reference architectures, and technical standards for AWS infrastructure and platform capabilities • Lead design of scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native solutions using AWS services • Solve complex infrastructure and platform problems spanning multiple systems, teams, and technology layers • Lead root cause analysis for significant incidents and drive durable corrective actions • Establish enterprise patterns for infrastructure as code, automation, and CI/CD using Terraform and related tooling • Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams on regulatory and policy controls • Provide technical leadership for internal and external audits and improve audit readiness • Architect disaster recovery, high availability, backup, and fault-tolerant strategies and validate recovery through testing • Define and enforce cloud security practices for identity, networking, encryption, keys, secrets, and workload configuration • Drive cloud vulnerability management, configuration compliance, remediation, patching, and hardening • Establish observability standards for logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting • Influence technical roadmaps, sequencing, and investment decisions across engineering teams • Advise engineering leaders and senior stakeholders on cloud architecture, risk, tradeoffs, and technical direction • Produce technical documentation, standards, architecture artifacts, and guidance • Mentor engineers and technical leaders • Support the company’s risk management and protection of system and data integrity and confidentiality

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or demonstrated portfolio consistent with the experience required of the role • 15 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles • 5 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio designing and operating solutions in AWS at enterprise scale • Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed data services • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Linux environments, and distributed systems design • Experience leading architecture and technical direction for large-scale, business-critical, cloud-based platforms or migrations • Ability to influence engineers, architects, and leaders across multiple teams without direct authority • Experience establishing and scaling infrastructure as code practices using Terraform and related automation tooling • Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, operational readiness, and software delivery lifecycle disciplines • Experience implementing and governing security and compliance controls aligned with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC • Experience designing and operationalizing observability solutions for complex, high-availability transactional environments • Strong judgment evaluating tradeoffs involving reliability, security, cost, speed, and maintainability • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Customer responsiveness, documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize in ambiguous environments • Background and drug screen required • Current AWS certification(s) and/or other relevant cloud certifications preferred • Master’s degree preferred • Experience with large-scale cloud migration or modernization programs in regulated environments preferred • Experience with policy-as-code, cloud governance frameworks, and developer enablement models preferred • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, or AppDynamics preferred • Experience with container and workload security technologies preferred • Experience with Python, Java, C#, Ruby, or Shell preferred • Knowledge of ACH/EFT and real-time payment networks, including RTP or FedNow preferred • Experience in FinTech, banking, payments, or other highly regulated industries preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary incentive plan • Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans • Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA) • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health, and dependent care expenses • 401(k) retirement plan • 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility • Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees • Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees • 11 paid company holidays • Paid volunteer day • 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave • Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work