Senior DevOps Engineer

Who We Are

At Zay Zoon, we are on a mission to save 10 million hardworking employees 10 billion dollars. We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness. We offer a variety of financial wellness services, like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of Zay Zoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees.

Zay Zoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and top‑10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards. Our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD 🎉. Join us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today’s employees.

We’re looking for a Dev Ops Engineer who loves ownership, automation, and impact to directly power a fast‑growing product. In this role, you’ll design resilient, high‑performing systems and raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability across the platform. You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, data, testing, and security, partnering closely with teams to streamline deployments, strengthen compliance, and respond decisively to critical issues when they matter most.

From building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code to applying best‑in‑class Dev Ops practices, you’ll have the autonomy to shape how we build and operate in the cloud. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, improving systems end‑to‑end, and leaving things better than you found them, this is a role where your work will truly make a difference.

• Own and scale Zay Zoon’s AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security.
• Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using Cloud Formation, build CI/CD pipelines, and manage existing infrastructure stacks.
• Optimize our Postgre
  
  SQL databases for high availability and performance.
• Improve monitoring and observability when possible, ensuring detection and a proactive resolution of issues.
• Design secure, scalable cloud services in AWS that meet SOC‑2 and cybersecurity compliance.
• Evaluate and remediate Critical and High CVEs across all services promptly.
• Work cross‑functionally across development, data, testing, and security teams to convey concepts and improve deployment processes.
• Apply Dev Ops best practices in everything you do.

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience in AWS or GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with Python or an equivalent high‑level language (Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Knowledge of Bash and SQL.
• Experience with Cloud Formation to provision and maintain infrastructure, or other IaC tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.
• Experience with Cloud Watch, Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate, Code Pipeline, and native deployments.
• Experience building efficient CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions or an equivalent.
• Ability to deep‑dive into Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail logging, and other logging tools such as Athena to troubleshoot.
• Experience migrating compute from Intel to ARM architecture.

• Fully remote – work from anywhere forever.
• Flexible time off – up to 6 weeks vacation, plus “You‑do‑You” breaks.
• Instant benefits – medical, vision, dental, mental‑health coverage, and wellness stipend from day 1.
• Inclusive parental leave top‑up, earned wage access, real‑time salary market data, and a culture for lifelong learning.

We care a lot about employee experience and pay is a big part of that. We’re on a journey toward internal pay transparency, completing it by the end of Q1. In the meantime, we’re happy to share more about our compensation philosophy and what you can expect during the hiring process.

Every application will be reviewed by our team – we’re committed to giving each application the attention it deserves. We’ll keep you in the loop and respond to every application. Apply with confidence; we look forward to hearing from you.