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Lead DevOps Engineer

Job summary
Permanent contract
San Francisco
Occasional remote
Salary: $185K to 215K
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
DevOps principles
Grafana
Java
Kubernetes
Terraform
+5

Lending Club
Lending Club

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Job description

  • As a member of the DevOps team, you will build and support the applications and infrastructure that enable teams to configure, deploy, operate, and monitor the mission-critical services powering LendingClub
  • You will work in a highly collaborative and dynamic environment and help influence the strategy and direction of our infrastructure by building scalable solutions to complex technical problems
  • Build applications and infrastructure to enable LendingClub to deliver high-quality software quickly
  • Build monitoring and alerting infrastructure that is scalable and easy to maintain
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to investigate and resolve production issues
  • Ensure uptime and performance SLAs are met
  • Collaborate with operations, security, and engineering teams to build self-service frameworks that improve platform stability, reduce risk, and control costs
  • Work across the full infrastructure stack including design, architecture, capacity planning, monitoring, alerting, security, scaling, failover, and recovery
  • Partner with engineering teams on new feature rollouts
  • Troubleshoot issues independently and support engineers via shared channels such as Slack
  • Ramp on team systems and contribute to roadmap priorities and ongoing DevOps support

Benefits

  • Untracked vacation for salaried employees, which means take it when you need it, and generous paid time off for hourly team members
  • A hybrid work model that balances in-office and work from home
  • Leading health and safety protocols related to COVID, including complimentary at-home testing kits from Cue Health for those coming to the office
  • Up to 16 weeks paid leave for new parents, plus a fully paid, phased return-to-work policy for qualified leaves
  • Mothers Rooms and hospital-grade pumps in every LC office
  • Generous and varied mental health benefits
  • Wellness program with cash incentives — earn up to $75 per month for being active
  • Paid volunteer time and donation matching
  • Onsite gym, locker room, bike room, and fitness classes (depending on location)
  • Café with our own in-house barista
  • Stocked pantries with healthy snacks and drinks
  • Technology-forward and collaborative office spaces

Preferred experience

  • While the position will primarily work local hours, LendingClub is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary
  • Experience with Grafana and Prometheus
  • Strong system-level thinking with the ability to move across layers of the stack
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field; or equivalent work experience
  • Experience using AI to improve output quality, with sound judgment on limitations and human oversight
  • Strong experience with AWS, including IAM, EC2, ASG, ELB/ALB, AMI, EBS, VPC, S3, Route53, CodeDeploy, ECR, API Gateway, and Bedrock
  • Familiarity with agentic frameworks and MCP tools
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, containers, and Helm
  • Ability to independently troubleshoot and support other engineers
  • 8+ years of experience operating enterprise-class infrastructure
  • Expertise in building automated deployment pipelines and scalable systems
  • 5+ years of coding experience in an object-oriented language such as Java or Python

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