Our product & mission

North One is a business banking and financial management platform for small businesses across America. We don’t stop at being a faster, easier and simpler version of a bank - we’re focused on creating better financial outcomes for our customers by changing the definition of what a bank can do.  We’re building a digital finance department for every small business in America with our business bank account as its foundation. 

Our mission is to build a connected business banking and financial management platform that lets anyone run a successful small business. Our team believes deeply in the transformative power of entrepreneurship and wants to democratize taking ownership of your economic independence.

North One is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our high performing team 🚀. We are a remote-first, venture-backed startup at the heart of the FinTech movement and we’re  reshaping financial services and banking for small businesses across America. We are backed by some of the best VCs in the world and are solving important problems. 

Our product & mission

North One is a business banking and financial management platform for small businesses across America. We don’t stop at being a faster, easier and simpler version of a bank - we’re focused on creating better financial outcomes for our customers by changing the definition of what a bank can do.  We’re building a digital finance department for every small business in America with our business bank account as its foundation. 

Our mission is to build a connected business banking and financial management platform that lets anyone run a successful small business. Our team believes deeply in the transformative power of entrepreneurship and wants to democratize taking ownership of your economic independence.

Our team

As our Cloud Engineer, you’ll work with our world-class Engineer team. Reporting to our Enterprise Architect, you’ll be joining a team who have helped build companies like Chime, Twitter, Instacart, E-Trade, McKinsey, Etsy, eBay and more. We’re a team of A-players who are all-in on solving big, important problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Build production-ready infrastructure using AWS across multiple accounts and environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using IaC, scripting, and CI/CD pipelines (eg. Github Actions)
• Manage IAM roles and permissions to support secure, least-privilege access across teams
• Enforce infrastructure policy across teams, applications and environments
• Support serverless and event-driven applications built with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and EventBridge
• Thorough understanding of the SDLC, critical services, deployment processes, and supporting cloud infrastructure.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3-5 years building and operating AWS infrastructure in production across multiple AWS accounts
• 3-5 years managing IAM roles, permissions, and least-privilege access for engineering and cross-functional teams
• 2+ years using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Pulumi, Terraform) to manage environments
• Proficient in automation using Python, Bash, or shell scripting
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar tools
• Experience building and maintaining cloud and application observability using services like CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or Sentry (or similar)
• Experience configuring AWS networking (VPCs, DNS, security groups, routing, gateways)
• Familiar with cloud cost controls: tagging strategies, AWS Budgets, anomaly detection
• Understands infrastructure standards enforcement using services like AWS Config, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Security Hub, AWS CloudTrail, or AWS Trusted Advisor across environments

Bonus Points

• Experience configuring AWS Control Tower, Organizational Units (OUs), and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• Familiarity with CIS Controls, SOC 2, or NIST CSF frameworks
• Exposure to AI infrastructure (e.g. AWS Bedrock, RAG/MCP Server, huggingface, llama.cpp)
• Experience supporting compliance or secure configuration in regulated environments

Benefits

As a valuable member of North One’s team, you’ll get:

• Family coverage of top-tier health/dental benefits: Get the right coverage for what matters most
• Remote-first work: You decide where you work. You can work from home, visit one of our in-person hubs, or work while you travel
• Professional development budget: Enjoy an annual budget to deepen your expertise
• Powerful gear: We’ll make sure you have the right tech to do your best work
• Market range for this role at North One is $100,000-$120,000 CAD

Please note that at this time we are only hiring in Canada.

Few people have been trained for this sort of role, and research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they hav›en’t satisfied every requirement. If you are this close to what we’ve described, but aren’t sure, apply. Let’s figure out together if this is where you could shine.

North One is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. We welcome all applicants regardless of race, colour, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or national origin.