Senior DevOps Engineer

Kiavi, formerly known as LendingHome, is one of the largest lenders to real estate investors in the United States. With Kiavi’s technology platform and innovative financing solutions, real estate investors are empowered to make informed decisions, close deals faster, and realize the full potential of their real estate investment strategies.

Founded in 2013, Kiavi is committed to helping customers revitalize approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock and provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country.  We have funded almost $13 billion dollars worth of loans across about 52,000+ projects, becoming one of the nation's largest bridge loan lenders. 

Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 400 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards: Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more. 

• Loans Funded: $12.3+ billion in loans funded 
• Homes financed: 52,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country. 95% of projects have successful exits
• Geography: 31 states + D.C. where we lend to real estate investors so they can revitalize neighborhoods 
• Employees: Over 400 employees

This position can be based remotely in any of our approved hiring regions. Our hybrid distributed workforce philosophy allows us to find the best talent in the country and build diverse teams, while allowing our colleagues to work from the location that works best for them. For those who prefer to work in-office, we have locations in San Francisco and Pittsburgh. We also plan to use these spaces to bring together teammates to drive creativity and innovation.

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the services hosted on Kiavi's application platform while leveraging DevOps best practices. Additionally, DevOps Engineers are hybrid systems and software engineers who are responsible and take ownership for reliability, automation, and other issues related to 'keeping the lights on'. DevOps is integrated within the engineering team, and we're looking for engineers who want to be a part of developing, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure software. Come help us build a bigger and better platform at Kiavi.  You will be part of a small family within Kiavi that has a huge impact on our business and the financial market.

• Design and implement infrastructure from code
• Design and implement configuration management for systems
• Design and implement production and pre-production environments
• Design and perform consistent patch management, environment configuration changes, validation and rollback plans
• Design, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Design and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems
• Ensure systems availability and scalability
• Design, maintain, and use tools to automate operational processes
• Operate the platform within our security and privacy guidelines
• Design, implement, and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies
• Design and implement innovations that improve software engineering velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and data availability
• Coordinate and perform major upgrades with zero downtime
• Monitor the environments and perform alert/incident troubleshooting in a timely manner (24/7 coverage, rotating)
• Participate in periodic security audits
• Participate in writing postmortems for incidents
• Participate in data breach investigations and remediation
• Support application engineering teams with infrastructure, build systems and debugging

• 3+ years of Linux/Unix experience (including DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP, LDAP, firewalls, load balancing, routing/switching, monitoring and web applications)
• Strong experience implementing and supporting continuous delivery of code
• Strong experience implementing highly available SaaS solutions
• Strong experience with configuration management tools (Docker, Packer, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Etc)
• Experience with Ruby and Rails
• Strong experience troubleshooting application deployments
• Strong working knowledge of AWS architecture and tools like S3, EC2, ELB, ASG, ECS, EKS and VPCs
• Strong working knowledge of containerization/orchestration (Docker, Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes)
• Strong working knowledge of infrastructure from code (Cloudformation, Terraform)
• Strong hands-on experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting web based services
• Strong working knowledge of database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Meticulous and cautious.

Kiavi takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. The expected annualized base pay range for this full-time role to be performed remotely is $142,300 - $213,300 + equity + benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Your recruiter can share more about the specific base pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the pay range listed above reflects the base salary only, and does not include the target value of equity, or benefits.

We are not approved to hire in the following regions: Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey or Oklahoma. 

Benefits and Perks 

• Product Ownership: All employees think like an owner because all new hires are granted stock options. After meeting a service requirement at Kiavi, we offer an extension to exercise options up to 3 years after termination.
• Health Insurance: Our medical, dental, and vision plans are completely free for employee-only coverage, and the company pays 80% of the total premium for dependents.
• Whole-Person Wellness: Anyone can schedule no-cost unlimited virtual therapy sessions, use a monthly subsidy for fitness facilities, and access reimbursements for fertility services.
• Carrot: The leading global fertility benefits provider, built to support employees through their lifelong fertility healthcare journey.
• Retirement Savings. Employees who participate in our “no fee” 401(k) receive an immediately-vested employer match on 100% of contributions up to 3% of compensation. 
• Career Growth: We foster an environment that encourages opportunities to use your voice, do better for our customers and each other, and support your career journey.
• Flexible Time Off: With no cap on the number of days of PTO each year, employees are encouraged to enjoy a well-rounded lifestyle with work, travel, and family.
• Paid Leaves: You’re immediately eligible for up to 12 weeks of paid leave each year to bond with a new child (mothers & fathers) and up to 8 weeks for medical or caregiver leave so you come back ready to deliver high-impact results.
• Remote-First: We win together while still being fully remote, and each employee receives a stipend for their home office setup and a monthly allowance to help with the cost of internet/phone.

Kiavi in the News:

•  Comment start HousingWire: 2023 HW Tech100 Winner: Kiavi 
• PropTech Connect: Kiavi Closes $209M To Grow Its Funding Capacity 
• CrowdFund Insider: Kiavi Closes $158M Revolving Securitization of Residential Transition Loans 
• Mortgage Professional America: Real investors’ lender Kiavi achieves milestone  
• Inc Magazine: 2022 Best Places to Work: Kiavi