Who We Are:

Cardinal Financial is a nationwide direct mortgage lender that focuses on creating solutions for our borrowers, partners, and employees—to provide the very best experience. We are genuine and hard-working individuals who are not scared to improve and intentionally push beyond what is considered “good enough.” Looking to join a growing company that values its people, innovates, and expands on its proprietary technology? Apply below!

Who We Need:      

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for planning and managing cloud infrastructure in support of business objectives, from conception to deployment as well as mentoring other engineers. As a Senior Site Reliability engineer, you should be experienced with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code tooling, CI/CD technologies, coding/scripting languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries.

What You Will Do:      

• Collaborate with the greater engineering team in an agile environment.
• Partner with Leadership, Executive Management, and key business stakeholders to identify and solution technical requests.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (such as Terraform) to create or update new and existing cloud infrastructure.
• Engineer and deploy capabilities for Kubernetes clusters.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment process.
• Mentor other engineers in best practices and team conventions and standards.
• Manage your stories completely, including prioritization, working with stakeholders for design and specs, communicating status to all, writing the code, and documenting what you've done.
• Lead large projects with multiple engineers contributing, closely collaborating with designers and stakeholders.
• Write clean, concise code, and robust unit tests. 
• Lead code reviews and daily interactions to ensure our application meets our high standards. 
• Find ways to improve our applications and how we work, allowing us to make more happen with less.

What You Need:      

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• 8+ years of experience supporting production web applications required.
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform preferred.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure preferred.
• Experience with bash/python or other scripting languages required.
• Experience with dependency/build tools (such as gradle/npm) required.
• You communicate well whether you’re getting requirements from a stakeholder, writing those specifications, explaining a design to your colleagues, or patiently helping other engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze a request and design robust solutions.
• You write well-designed code that you and others will find easy to understand and modify six months from now.
• Demonstrated ability to review code and specifications ensuring high quality standards of other engineer’s stories.
• Mastery of Linux commands and tools.
• Mastery of cloud providers (AWS, Google) and infrastructure as code (terraform).
• Mastery of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• You’re passionate about great code design, security, performance, and testing.
• You pride yourself on understanding projects top to bottom.
• You’re comfortable working in a team where each of us has a huge impact and we depend on each other to get things done.
• You enjoy working alone or working with others. You’re comfortable doing things even when you’re not told exactly what to do.
• You like helping others on things that have nothing to do with your project.

What We Offer:

• Strength, Stability, and Vision
• Great compensation package
• Opportunity for career growth
• A commitment to be a relevant market leader - we are aiming for the top!
• Octane, our engineered proprietary technology that is transforming the mortgage industry
• An empowered culture where your ideas are important and your voice matters
• Full Benefits, beginning the first day of the month following your start date, including – Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability Insurance, and much more
• Generous paid time off package that also includes all major holidays
• 401K w/ 50% match - Beginning the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment

Cardinal Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and aim to empower individuals and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce. California residents click here to review Cardinal's California Employee Privacy Policy & Notice at Collection.  The expected base salary for this position ranges from one hundred thirty thousand dollars to one hundred eighty thousand dollars, determined based on the applicant's experience, skillset, education, training, certificates, and licenses.