This is a platform role with real scale and real stakes. You’ll keep a large AWS footprint reliable, secure, and fast, while improving the developer experience so teams can ship confidently in a payments environment.
About 8am
8am (formerly AffiniPay) is a professional business platform that helps legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Founded in 2005, it supports over 250,000 professionals across the U.S. and processes over $18B in payments annually. The company has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for 13 consecutive years and continues to scale.
Schedule
Remote (U.S. and Canada). You’ll participate in an on-call rotation with occasional off-hours emergency support. Work centers on AWS platform availability, security, performance, and developer tooling in a container and Kubernetes-first environment.
What You’ll Do
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for a 100% AWS-based infrastructure
- Build and own internal developer tooling and automation as a core product
- Support container and Kubernetes-first architecture as the cloud subject matter expert
- Create and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to deliver releases safely, quickly, and compliantly
- Leverage agentic and generative AI tooling to improve platform development and operations
- Partner with developers to identify bottlenecks and improve the overall developer experience and productivity
- Create onboarding programs and training resources to help new developers ramp quickly
- Expand observability tooling to detect and resolve performance and usability issues
- Join an on-call rotation and provide emergency support when needed
What You Need
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud operations, or a related technical function
- 3+ years implementing and maintaining infrastructure in a public cloud (AWS strongly preferred)
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred)
- Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred)
- Solid cloud networking knowledge (VPCs, subnets, route tables, NACLs, security groups, peering)
- Experience with relational database systems (RDS or Aurora preferred) and working knowledge of MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with security systems (WAF, HIDS/FIM, intrusion detection, vulnerability detection)
- Experience developing internal tools used by other teams
- Strong Linux container skills (Docker, OCI, LXC) with automated image build and deployment experience
- Proficiency in at least two languages: Ruby, Python, Java, JavaScript (NodeJS), or Bash
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, decision-making, or innovation
Benefits
- Salary range: $110,000 to $165,000 annually (location may impact range)
- Medical, dental, and vision options, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees
- Competitive package with bonuses, equity options, and 401(k) match (or RRSP in Canada)
- Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and parental leave
- Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching
- Learning and development resources through 8am.edu plus professional development funds
- Volunteer time off, charitable matching, and team engagement events
Platform roles at this level don’t stay open long, especially in payments-scale environments. If you’re built for reliability and love making engineers faster, this is one to jump on.
Go be the person who makes “it just works” true.
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