About Tala

Tala is a global technology company building the world’s most accessible financial services. With more than $350 million raised from visionary investors, we are serving millions of customers around the world who have been overlooked by traditional financial institutions – and our plan is to serve millions more, and have been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for four years running. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about the mission.

By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, more than 6 million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. 

Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission of enabling financial agency for underbanked people around the world. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and maintain the core components of our financial platform and scale it to serve millions of users across the world. The technical scope of the project is broad and leverages a variety of cutting-edge commercial and open source tools to get the job done.

What you'll do

• Working on impactful projects within an agile team to advance our overall platform 
• Developing on Tala underlying Cloud infrastructure. This involves building tools and services, contributing to our internal Kubernetes compute platform, and making access to AWS services simple and effective
• Influence team-level prioritization and technical direction - contribute towards team roadmaps
• Participating in an on-call rotation for the services the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues
• Engaging with Tala’s wider engineering teams to build relationships, identify potential areas of improvement (or pain points), and help drive adoption of our team’s solutions
• Mentor other engineers to help foster a cohesive team environment
• Familiarity with Cloud Cost Management implementation and design practices

Qualifications

• Well defined knowledge of how the Cloud works and love to share that knowledge with others
• Ability to build tooling, automation, and services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python)
• A strong customer focus for building internal products with other engineers as your customers
• Experience deploying and operating services in a Cloud environment
• An understanding of fundamental networking
• A strong belief that Infrastructure as Code is the way forward (though languages such as Terraform or Cloudformation)
• Love to model modern methodologies for unit tests, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting. You've been developing and operating web applications professionally and can talk at length to things you and your teams have built

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience in software engineering, working in a team environment
• Know your way around with one or more programming languages -- e.g., Python, Go, Ruby, or others
• Extensive experience deploying, operating, and debugging server software on Linux
• Experience with AWS
• Experience building and releasing software using Docker containers
• Experience with Kubernetes

Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.