What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform position at SoFi?
Who we are :
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team. In this role, you will design, develop, and deliver the self-service abstractions and foundational cloud primitives that empower teams to build efficiently on AWS. Your work will focus on compute, storage, networking, and authentication , providing scalable, secure, and reliable building blocks that allow other teams to accelerate development and innovation. You will collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across the company to drive architectural decisions, influence best practices, mentor engineers, and own large-scale projects from ideation to production.
What You’ll Do :
- Technical Leadership & Strategy
Define and execute the technical strategy for core cloud platform services—including compute (EC2, Serverless), storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), networking (VPC, routing, service meshes), and authentication (AWS IAM, custom auth flows).
Architect scalable, reliable, and highly available systems that handle the platform’s growth and evolving needs, ensuring low latency and strong performance.
Collaborate with product teams, security, DevOps, and other engineering organizations to understand requirements, identify gaps, and deliver solutions that simplify the developer experience.
Mentor and guide engineers across the organization, sharing best practices in design patterns, system architecture, cloud-native development, and operational excellence.
Drive observability (logging, monitoring, tracing) strategies that ensure proactive detection of issues in compute, storage, networking, and auth layers.
What You’ll Need :
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
Pay range : $172,800.00 - $297,000.00
Payment frequency : Annual
This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.
Salary : $172,800 - $297,000
