About us:

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.

Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.

We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

About the role:

We're looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP under the direction of senior engineers.
• Contribute to keeping our cloud infrastructure scalable, secure, and highly available.
• Build automation that reduces toil and helps infrastructure recover from production incidents.
• Troubleshoot issues and provide support for our cloud infrastructure and observability tools.
• Help ensure our cloud infrastructure is compliant with relevant security and regulatory standards.
• Follow and contribute to incident response process and tooling; participate in monitoring and alerting work across the application stack.
• Collaborate within the tech org on infrastructure work, with some exposure to cross-departmental projects, including workflow automation (crons, n8n, Airflow) that bridges infrastructure and business processes.
• Participate in Ops team processes: outage incidents, compliance requirements, sprint work, metrics collection, and documentation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP).
• Familiarity with observability tools and processes, such as monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Working experience in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, or Go.