Company Overview Closinglock is modernizing the real estate world’s way of transferring information and funds to eliminate wire fraud and provide a secure, easy-to-use platform for title companies, law firms, and other financial services to protect themselves and their clients from wire fraud. We act in the long-term best interests of our customers by understanding their needs and challenges. When our customers win, we win. To date, we have protected over $250B+ in funds related to residential property transactions. Closinglock’s platform has been used by clients in all 50 states and across 42 countries. Closinglock is headquartered in Austin, TX, with an office in downtown Austin. Today, the company has grown to 100+ employees across product & engineering, sales, partnerships, customer success, marketing, and finance. Mission: Simplify the real estate closing experience for all parties Vision: Provide a secure and efficient transfer of data and funds The inherent value of what we offer with our fraud prevention platform and modern payment solution for real estate is protecting a homebuyer’s largest investment in their life. We are rapidly expanding our team and are seeking exceptional talent. Our current team is comprised of top performers across the board, and we will continue to hire in this manner. We firmly believe that top performers want to work with other top performers. We have a lot of fun at work because we trust each other and respect each other's talents, abilities, and experiences. We are hyper-focused on a shared vision, and our company's strength is based on the unparalleled quality of our team. There is no limit to what we can accomplish together! Check out our [website](https://www.closinglock.com/) to learn more about our company. THE ROLE As a DevOps Engineer at Closinglock, you'll be a core member of our engineering team, working alongside our Senior DevOps Engineer to build and improve the infrastructure powering a security-critical fintech platform that processes billions of dollars each month. You'll collaborate closely across the team to design, build, and maintain the systems that keep Closinglock reliable, secure, and fast. You'll have a real impact on our cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, and observability stack. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting high availability and performance for our platform - Help evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and frequent deployments across multiple environments - Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, ensuring reproducibility and auditability - Monitor system health, performance, and security using observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty) and respond to incidents with urgency and thoroughness - Work with containerized and orchestrated workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), supporting cluster operations and scaling strategies - Collaborate with software engineers to improve developer experience — reducing friction, improving deployment times, and contributing to self-service tooling - Participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to incident postmortems, supporting root-cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements - Contribute to internal documentation and runbooks so that institutional knowledge is shared and processes are repeatable WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Required Qualifications - 3-5 years of professional experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering role - Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch) - Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar) - Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration - Working knowledge of Linux system administration and shell scripting (Bash) - Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent) - Familiarity with security best practices: secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), network segmentation, IAM policies, and encryption at rest/in transit Preferred Qualifications - Experience in a fintech, payments, or regulated industry environment (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or similar compliance frameworks) - Proficiency with a scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Node.js - Experience with database performance tuning and managing managed database services (Aurora, RDS) - Familiarity with zero-trust networking principles and SIEM tooling - AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer Professional) Perks & Benefits At Closinglock, we invest in our employees and provide a full range of benefits and perks to help you grow and thrive. These benefits include: - Competitive salary - Equity compensation - Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - Unlimited PTO - 401(k) match - Maternity/paternity leave - Fully-subsidized downtown parking - Weekly lunch stipend - Full access to onsite gym and locker rooms - Monthly team get-togethers (Lunches, social events, sports outings, etc) Closinglock is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.