Senior DevOps Engineer

Prelim

10d•$210,000 - $230,000•Remote

About The Position

Prelim builds digital account-opening infrastructure for community banks and credit unions. We've sustained over 100% ARR growth for four consecutive years on seed funding, and our platform sits in the critical path of how banks onboard their customers. When our system is down, a bank can't open accounts for its customers. We're a small team. You'd be our first dedicated DevOps hire, which means you'll own infrastructure end to end. We sell to regulated financial institutions. Change management, access controls, and audit logging need to produce evidence, not just exist. You'll partner closely with our security function on our ongoing SOC 2 and bank due-diligence requirements. Growth shouldn't mean linear infrastructure spend.

Requirements

5+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform engineering roles; experience as an early or solo infra hire strongly preferred
Deep fluency with a major cloud provider (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code in production
You've built CI/CD pipelines other engineers loved, not just tolerated
Strong opinions on observability. You've instrumented systems, defined SLOs, and run incident processes
Comfortable operating in a regulated or compliance-heavy environment, or eager to learn what that demands (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
You default to automation and mechanisms over manual process, and you document what you build
Pragmatic: you can tell the difference between what a 50-person company needs now and what a 400-person company needs later

Nice To Haves

Fintech, banking, or other regulated-industry experience
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture
Database operations experience (backups, migrations, performance)
Security-adjacent skills: secrets management, network segmentation, least-privilege IAM

Responsibilities

Own the build, test, and deploy pipeline. Our engineers ship fast; your job is to make shipping fast and safe: progressive rollouts, fast rollbacks, deploy confidence.
Make and enforce our infrastructure as fully reproducible environments via code.
Define and hit uptime targets our bank customers contractually depend on. Build out monitoring, alerting, and incident response so we find problems before our customers do. Mature our on-call practice from heroics into a system.
Own the cloud bill.