Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

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 Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team Key Responsibilities: Effectively coordinate with both technical and non-technical staff across departments; this role involves a good amount of cross-functional collaboration, including partnering on workflow automation (crons, n8n, Airflow) that bridges infrastructure and business processes. Comfortable with the process side of an Ops team: running outage incidents, working within compliance requirements, coordinating sprints, collecting metrics to report up to management, and maintaining documentation. Maintain and improve incident response process and tooling, ensuring accurate, reliable, and proactive monitoring across the application stack. Ensure that our cloud infrastructure is compliant with relevant security and regulatory standards. Design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure in GCP. Ensure our cloud infrastructure is scalable, secure, and highly available. Build automation that reduces toil and enables infrastructure to self-heal during production incidents. Troubleshoot issues and provide support for our cloud infrastructure and observability tools. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Professional, expert level experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP) with minimum 5 years experience. Experience with observability tools and processes, such as monitoring, logging, and tracing. Strong experience in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, or Go. Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience collaborating with network and application security teams; ability to make sound security-informed judgments is a plus. Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate work. The company provides access to Claude, and integrates Copilot and Gemini into automation workflows; we expect engineers to use these effectively and look for opportunities to apply them. Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation. Nice to Haves: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git. Collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams. Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef. Previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment. Mentorship or technical leadership experience; comfortable directing the work of junior engineers on a project basis, though this is not a day-to-day people management role. Compensation: The base salary range for this role is $185-200k. The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc. Location: This position is classified as REMOTE within the United States of America. We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S. Benefits: Market-leading medical, dental