Senior DevOps Engineer

At ZayZoon, we are on a mission to save 10 million hardworking employees 10 billion dollars. We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness. 

We offer a variety of financial wellness services, like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of ZayZoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees. ZayZoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and top-10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards. Our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD 🎉  Join us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today's employees.

You might see a few cities listed, but no need to be in any of them! We’re fully remote and hire across Canada and the U.S.

About the role:

At ZayZoon, we've built a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a real impact on employee financial wellness, and the infrastructure you build here directly powers that mission.

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who sits at the intersection of engineering, data, testing, and security. You'll embed closely with app and infrastructure engineers, keeping a sharp eye on how our systems perform and making sure they're built to scale. If you love ownership, automation, making environments a platform and also get excited about deep-diving into observability, data performance, and leaving systems better than you found them, this is the hybrid challenge you've been looking for.

Your impact:

• Own and develop ZayZoon's infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation, with an emphasis on serverless resources (ECS, Fargate, Lambda)

• Instrument and analyze daily metrics across both infrastructure performance and our Ruby on Rails applications, using AWS tooling (Athena, CloudTrail) and third-party observability platforms (Grafana, OTel, CloudWatch)

• Build, optimize, and maintain efficient pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline) to accelerate developer velocity, including modern deployment strategies like blue/green deployments and intelligent auto-scaling

• Stay ahead of resource dependencies, particularly databases (RDS, Redshift), including upgrades, playbooks, and downtime planning

• Work closely with application developers to serve all of their infrastructure needs. Turning repeatable needs like spinning up environments, running jobs etc. into platform services that can be used by devs whenever they need them.

• Project costs and implement AWS cost savings programs and reserved instances

• Partner with our risk and security teams to maintain SOC-2 and cybersecurity compliance, and actively evaluate and remediate Critical and High CVEs across all services

• Collaborate extensively with app developers on shared metrics, database performance, and load testing

• Collaborate extensively with data engineers to facilitate data warehouse development, ELT, and ETL

• Participate in our agile process: sprint planning, story grooming, and standup

• Champion our SDLC and secure coding practices across everything you ship

You bring:

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience, with deep, production-level AWS expertise

• 2+ years of AWS experience including certification and deployment of production applications

• Strong proficiency with IaC, specifically CloudFormation

• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, ECR)

• Experience with Python for Dev tooling and scripting

• Experience analyzing and acting on performance issues using observability platforms like OTel, and building dashboards with Grafana

• A bias toward building POCs quickly, figuring out what works, and then levelling up to quality, scalable features when the MVP becomes core functionality

• A deep desire to track and trace everything so we can find incident root causes before they happen, and the sleeves-rolled-up attitude to help the team dig in when something does go wrong

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of listed criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We’d love to talk and determine together whether you could be a great fit!

• Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever

• Flexible Time Off: Whether it's a longer vacation to explore new horizons, a series of short breaks for regular rejuvenation, or stepping away for a new level of mastery in a skillset – our “You-do-You” time off program caters to the diverse and evolving lifestyles of our team with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation

• Instant Benefits: All full-time employees get access to medical, vision, and dental benefits from their very first day including increased mental health coverage and a wellness stipend

• Plus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more

Every application will be reviewed by our team - we're committed to giving each application the attention it deserves because we know how important this step is for you. We want to make sure you're always in the loop and will respond to every application.

So go ahead and hit that apply button with confidence, knowing that we’re here for you every step of the way! We can't wait to hear from you.

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