Senior DevOps Engineer

Who We Are

At Zay Zoon, 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 Zay Zoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees.

Zay Zoon 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.

We’re looking for a Dev Ops Engineer who loves ownership, automation, and impact to directly power a fast‑growing product. In this role, you’ll design resilient, high‑performing systems and raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability across the platform. You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, data, testing, and security, partnering closely with teams to streamline deployments, strengthen compliance, and respond decisively to critical issues when they matter most.

From building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code to applying best‑in‑class Dev Ops practices, you’ll have the autonomy to shape how we build and operate in the cloud. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, improving systems end‑to‑end, and leaving things better than you found them, this is a role where your work will truly make a difference.

• Own and scale Zay Zoon’s AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security.
• Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using Cloud Formation, build CI/CD pipelines and manage existing infrastructure stacks.
• Optimize our Postgre
  
  SQL databases for high availability and performance.
• Improve monitoring and observability to ensure detection and proactive resolution of issues.
• Design secure (SOC‑2 and cybersecurity compliance), scalable cloud services in AWS.
• Evaluate and remediate critical and high CVEs across all our services on a moment’s notice.
• Work cross‑functionally across multiple teams such as development, data, testing, and security to convey concepts and build understanding as well as improve deployment processes.
• Apply Dev Ops best practices in everything you do – there are many ways to do things, and you bring the best of them to our environment.

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience in AWS or GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with Python or equivalent high‑level language (Go, Ruby, etc).
• Knowledge of Bash & Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience with Cloud Formation to provision and maintain infrastructure, or experience in other IaC tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent.
• Experience with Cloud Watch and Elastic Container Services (ECS) running on Fargate, with Code Pipeline and native deployments.
• Experience building efficient CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions or an equivalent.
• Ability to deep dive into Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail logging and other logging tooling, such as Athena, to get to the bottom of a problem.
• Experience migrating compute from Intel to ARM architecture.

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 anyway. 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”…