Job Description
Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source.
We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open-source project is FingerprintJS (20K stars on GitHub).
We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners (previously invested in Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle).
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates’ personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Fingerprint recruiting email communications will always come from the @fingerprint.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Fingerprint via other sources should be ignored.
Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering
The Role in Context
Fingerprint is scaling rapidly, and our infrastructure is the bedrock of our 25B+ annual request volume. We are looking for a Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering to lead a team of 6 elite engineers.
In this role, you aren’t just keeping the lights on—you are the architect of our scalability, the guardian of our hosting efficiency, and the primary bridge between Engineering and Finance. You will have high autonomy to define what “best-in-class” infrastructure looks like for a high-growth SaaS leader.
Your Mission
- Lead & Elevate: Direct a team of 6 Cloud Engineers. You will foster a culture of high ownership, technical excellence, and “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) first.
- Scale the Platform: Oversee the evolution of our AWS EKS clusters, ensuring they remain resilient, performant, and secure under massive load.
- Strategic FinOps: Partner directly with the Finance team to manage hosting costs. You will be responsible for cost-visibility, and driving a “cost-conscious” engineering culture.
- Establish the Standard: Define and enforce infrastructure best practices (security, CI/CD, observability) across the entire engineering organization.
What You’ll Do
- Operational Excellence: Manage and improve our modern DevOps stack, including ArgoCD for GitOps, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and Cloudflare for edge protection.
- Architecture & Governance: Act as the primary technical advisor for cloud architecture. Ensure that as product teams build new features, the underlying infrastructure is scalable by default.
- Autonomy & Influence: Operate with minimal guidance to identify bottlenecks, propose architectural shifts, and lead their execution.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Be the “visible lead” for infrastructure. Distill complex technical tradeoffs into business-ready decisions for Finance and Product leadership.
Qualifications
Required:
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years managing engineering teams in a cloud-native environment, with a total of 10+ years in technology.
- AWS Mastery: Deep expertise in the AWS ecosystem, specifically EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, VPC, and RDS.
- Modern DevOps Stack: Expert-level knowledge of GitOps workflows ( ArgoCD), CI/CD pipelines ( GitHub Actions), and Infrastructure as Code ( Terraform).
- FinOps & Cost Management: Proven track record of managing seven-figure cloud budgets and implementing successful cost-reduction strategies.
- Autonomy: Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives from conception to completion with minimal oversight.
Preferred:
- Security Mindset: Familiarity with SOC 2 compliance, network security, and zero-trust principles.
- Cloudflare: Experience managing WAF, Workers, or CDN configurations at the edge.
Why This Role?
- High Impact: You own the foundation of a product that prevents fraud for the world’s largest brands.
- Modern Tools: No legacy “on-prem” baggage. We are 100% cloud-native and committed to the best modern tooling.
- Leadership Freedom: You will have the budget and the mandate to build the infrastructure team of your dreams.
Compensation Range
For US-based employees, the cash compensation range for this role is $150,000 – $215,000. We set standard ranges for all US roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. However, these ranges are specific to the hiring location and may differ within or outside the US.
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates’ personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Fingerprint recruiting email communications will always come from the @fingerprint.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Fingerprint via other sources should be ignored.
Offers vary depending on, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, certifications/licenses, skills, training, and market conditions.
Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.
We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.
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