Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs). We harness the power of data & technology to offer our customers a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their businesses. Formerly known as LendingHome, we’re committed to helping REIs revitalize the approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country. Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 500 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards, Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more. Loans Funded: $30 billion in loans funded Homes financed: 100,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country Geography: 49 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods Employees: Over 500 employees with competitive benefits and perks This position will be primarily remote based out of the San Francisco Bay area or Pittsburgh, PA. Identity Verification Notice: To ensure the security and integrity of our hiring process, all candidates are required to complete a secure identity verification. This process uses biometric and device validation to confirm identity and liveness. All data is handled securely in accordance with our .
Job Duties
Design and implement infrastructure from code
Design and implement configuration management for systems
Design and implement production and pre-production environments
Design and perform consistent patch management, environment configuration changes, validation and rollback plans
Design, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
Design and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems
Ensure systems availability and scalability
Design, maintain, and use tools to automate operational processes
Operate the platform within our security and privacy guidelines
Design, implement, and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies
Design and implement innovations that improve software engineering velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and data availability
Coordinate and perform major upgrades with zero downtime
Monitor the environments and perform alert/incident troubleshooting in a timely manner (24/7 coverage, rotating)
Participate in periodic security audits
Participate in writing postmortems for incidents
Participate in data breach investigations and remediation
Support application engineering teams with infrastructure, build systems and debugging
Minimum Qualifications
3+ years of Linux/Unix experience (including DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP, LDAP, firewalls, load balancing, routing/switching, monitoring and web applications)
Strong experience implementing and supporting continuous delivery of code
Strong experience implementing highly available SaaS solutions
Strong working knowledge of AWS architecture and tools like S3, EC2, ELB, ASG, ECS, EKS and VPCs
Strong working knowledge of containerization/orchestration (Docker, Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes)
Strong working knowledge of infrastructure from code (Cloudformation, Terraform)
Strong hands-on experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting web based services
Strong working knowledge of database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake.
Strong written and oral communication skills
Meticulous and cautious. We are shifting from being a monolithic Rails application to a distributed set of services. Experience having done this in the past is super useful to us. We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us.
