Altruist
Cloud Engineering Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$8,051 more — $189,051 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $189,051 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!
- We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives.
- We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of the Cloud Engineering roadmap: governed EKS platform in Broker-Dealer and Clearing, pilot-light disaster recovery (RTO ≤ 60 min / RPO ≤ 15 min), Postgres upgrades, and edge gateway consolidation.
- Drive software supply chain security and SDLC hygiene - SBOMs, signed provenance, hardened golden images, and policy-as-code admission control - in partnership with Security Engineering.
- Own the Cloud on-call rotation and incident response process: SLAs, runbooks, blameless post-mortems, and follow-through on action items.
- Manage cloud and observability spend with a cost-per-service view, making trade-offs explicit to Finance and to engineering leadership.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Kong, Envoy, or Gateway API at the edge
- Operational credibility - you have run a production on-call rotation and can act as a senior escalation point, not just route the page to someone else
Skills
- About Altruist
- Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness.
- About the position
Compensation
- Los Angeles, CA salary range
Benefits
- Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Software Engineering, but experience and understanding are just as important
Company info
- We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.
- But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness.
- Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it's hard.
This listing is sourced directly from Altruist's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.