Staff DevOps Engineer

About the role

As a Staff DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE, owning the architecture, reliability strategy, and scalability of our infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This is a high-impact role where you will define how infrastructure is built, operated, and scaled across the company, not just implement it. About Lean Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure. What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We've processed billions of dollars in transactions. We're trusted by 350+ clients - from Binance and Careem to Etisalat - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was just the beginning. We're expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn't exist here before.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud (GCP, OCI, on-prem)
• Design and evolve Kubernetes platforms for multi-region scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Establish and drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards across all environments
• Build and scale observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to support proactive reliability
• Lead efforts to meet and exceed SLA, SLO, and error budget targets
• Own and improve incident management processes, including postmortems and systemic fixes
• Drive automation strategy across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operations
• Champion security, compliance, and reliability best practices (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks)
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform usability
• Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader across DevOps and infrastructure domains
• Must-Have Technical Skills
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Deep expertise in:
• Linux systems and internals
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls)
• Kubernetes (design, operations, and troubleshooting)
• Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools)
• Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar)
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI preferred)
• Additional Technical Experience:
• CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
• Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS)
• Performance optimization in distributed systems

Requirements

• Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments
• Strong understanding of multi-region and high-availability architectures
• Exposure to edge/network platforms (e.g., Cloudflare)
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
• Strong documentation and runbook culture
• Passion for building resilient, scalable infrastructure platforms
• NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we're keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!
• Why Join us?
• We're building the financial infrastructure for MENA. Not as a slogan, as a fact.
• Our recent $67.5M Series B from General Catalyst and Se

Benefits

Additional Information

Lean is expanding our footprint by opening an office in Egypt this summer, and the Staff DevOps Engineer role is one of our first hires in the market. We're a Series B fintech (General Catalyst and Sequoia backed), and over the last few years, we have grown from a category-defining open banking company into a multi-rail infrastructure layer powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. Cairo is a long-term bet on a market we believe in, and the people who join now will shape what Lean looks like there for years to come. You will be working alongside a very diverse team of 30+ nationalities, with backgrounds from some of the best fintechs in the region and globally. The work is hard, the standards are high, and the ownership is real. If you are a builder who wants to set the standard, this is the right moment to join.

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