Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

SoFi • Seattle, WA

8h

About The Position

SoFi is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Cloud Efficiency team, a role that sits at the pivotal intersection of strategic finance and cloud engineering. As a key contributor to our Efficiency Platform and FinOps strategy, you will move beyond static monitoring by engineering autonomous AI agents and RAG-based workflows to proactively resolve inefficiencies, ensuring our cloud architecture remains both high-performing and fiscally disciplined. This is a unique opportunity to directly influence the architecture and efficiency best practices used across SoFi engineering, building mission-critical visibility tools that empower developers to scale innovation efficiently. If you are a seasoned engineer with a passion for cloud technologies and a desire to enhance the performance and cost-effectiveness of foundational systems, we invite you to help fuel SoFi’s next generation of financial offerings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years software development experience.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms including AWS, and cloud native technologies.
• Strong programming fundamentals (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go).
• Strong understanding of software design principles, microservice architecture and best practices.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and practices.
• Experience with container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), Networking and service meshes (e.g. Istio).
• Experience with workflows (e.g. Temporal, Apache Airflow, Cadence).

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code) and building agentic workflows to automate cloud governance, using AWS Bedrock, RAG patterns, and MCP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and efficient cloud solutions.
• Develop and maintain robust data pipelines that ingest and normalize granular billing data, integrating system performance telemetry with cost metrics to provide a single source of truth.
• Build intuitive, scalable utilization and cost observability solutions that track key cloud efficiency metrics, empowering developers to see the direct financial impact of their architecture.
• Collaborate with external vendors and software engineers to integrate solutions seamlessly into cloud environments.
• Implement sophisticated tagging strategies and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure 100% of cloud resources are accurately mapped to business units and products.
• Build and Operate agentic AI solutions to analyze efficiency and utilization data, provide insights and drive optimization strategies.
• Write high-quality software solutions, including automation scripts and custom tooling, to proactively identify and eliminate cloud waste and process inefficiencies.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees