Lead DevOps & SRE Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Current Employees of LendingClub: Please apply via your internal Workday Account

LendingClub (soon to be Happen Bank) is built around a simple purpose: to clear the way to help people turn intention into action, and action into financial progress. That means offering focused products, a frictionless mobile-first experience, and clear terms with no gotchas. Respect and fairness is part of our DNA, and that ideal shapes how we work, how we treat each other, and how we invest in our employees and our community. Join us in using data, bold thinking, and a commitment to innovation to help clear the way for millions of Americans to achieve more.

About the Role

As a member of the DevOps team, you will build and support the applications and infrastructure that enable teams to configure, deploy, operate, and monitor the mission-critical services powering LendingClub. You will work in a highly collaborative and dynamic environment and help influence the strategy and direction of our infrastructure by building scalable solutions to complex technical problems.

What You'll Do

• Build applications and infrastructure to enable LendingClub to deliver high-quality software quickly
• Build monitoring and alerting infrastructure that is scalable and easy to maintain
• Participate in an on-call rotation to investigate and resolve production issues
• Ensure uptime and performance SLAs are met
• Collaborate with operations, security, and engineering teams to build self-service frameworks that improve platform stability, reduce risk, and control costs
• Work across the full infrastructure stack including design, architecture, capacity planning, monitoring, alerting, security, scaling, failover, and recovery
• Partner with engineering teams on new feature rollouts
• Troubleshoot issues independently and support engineers via shared channels such as Slack
• Ramp on team systems and contribute to roadmap priorities and ongoing DevOps support

About You

• 8+ years of experience operating enterprise-class infrastructure
• 5+ years of coding experience in an object-oriented language such as Java or Python
• Strong experience with AWS, including IAM, EC2, ASG, ELB/ALB, AMI, EBS, VPC, S3, Route53, CodeDeploy, ECR, API Gateway, and Bedrock
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, containers, and Helm
• Experience with Grafana and Prometheus
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks and MCP tools
• Expertise in building automated deployment pipelines and scalable systems
• Strong system-level thinking with the ability to move across layers of the stack
• Ability to independently troubleshoot and support other engineers
• Experience using AI to improve output quality, with sound judgment on limitations and human oversight
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; or equivalent work experience

Work Location
San Francisco

The above locations are eligible offices for this role. The locations have been determined to foster in-person collaboration with this role’s team or the related business lines. We utilize a hybrid work model, and our teams are in-office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. In-person attendance is essential for this role’s success, and remote placement will not be considered. LendingClub offers relocation, based on actual job level.

Time Zone Requirements
Primarily PT

While the position will primarily work local hours, LendingClub is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary.

Travel Requirements
As needed travel to LendingClub offices and/or other locations, as needed.

Compensation
The target base salary range for this position is 185,000-215,000. The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge, experience, education, skills, and location. Base salary is just one part of LendingClub’s Total Rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance, employee performance and eligible earnings).

We’re creating new financial services solutions for our members based on fairness, simplicity, and heart, and we treat our employees the same way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their families, 401(k) match, health and wellness programs, flexible time off policies for salaried employees, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave and more.

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LendingClub is an equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We believe that a variety of perspectives will make our teams and business stronger as we work together to transform the traditional banking system. 

 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].