Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer
Company: M1 Finance
Location: Chicago, IL (Remote)
Salary: $165,000 - $195,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-21
About this role
Company Description
M1 Finance has created a personal wealth-building platform made for the modern era, uniting personal perspective and automated ease. We seamlessly combine free investing and low cost borrowing all in one intuitive, automated Finance Super App, and we’re driven by a mission to empower personal financial well-being. We believe that financial well-being is fundamental to overall well-being, and we strive to deliver products that are simpler, smarter, and stronger than those created by our boring, entrenched, and slow-moving competitors in the personal finance industry.
Our clients have already trusted us with over $13 billion of assets, we’re currently helping hundreds of thousands of people grow and manage their wealth with our industry-leading automation and tools, and we’re adding thousands of new clients every day.
We’re looking for passionate people who want to improve and build on what we’ve created and take responsibility to help others build something meaningful and sustainable for their futures.
We mean it when we say, “M1 is yours to build.”
If this sounds interesting to you, read on!
Job Description
What you'll do
- Help design and evolve our AWS foundation — account structure, network architecture (VPC, DNS, routing), and IAM — and shape the Terraform conventions the infra team builds on.
- Harden our network's reliability, including the hybrid and on-prem connectivity behind systems that can't go down.
- Operate and evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and the in-cluster platform services that run on them — ingress, service mesh, autoscaling, and policy.
- Build the observability layer — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting — so teams can see how their systems behave and catch issues before customers do.
- Expand our self-service platform and CI/CD + GitOps automation, so routine changes are safe and repeatable instead of manual and risky.
- Keep security, secrets management, and least-privilege access sane as the pl...