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It brings together SaaS products to help consumers build credit, manage their debt, and get access to suitable loans and credit cards. These are the major financial needs of middle-income consumers living paycheck-to-paycheck.\nBright is a profitable, India-built, U.S.-market Consumer FinTech, with revenue trajectory to $100M in the coming 12 months. The business model combines subscription revenue with financial service marketplace revenues for loans, credit cards, and credit-building tools.\nBright has launched an AI money assistant and AI agentic UX flows for access to credit. It will be the first AI-driven Consumer FinTech for middle-income consumers.\nThe Bright product suite has potential for global markets beyond the US. The market size is 100M global middle-income consumers, with a revenue pool opportunity of $15B.\nBright is backed by 3 top global venture capital firms, and leading tech angel investors in the USA, Europe, and Asia.\nBright was founded in 2019 by a founding team from McKinsey’s Banking Practice (Petko Plachkov and Avi Patchava) and InMobi Data Scientists (Varun Modi and Avi Patchava). The core team is ex-InMobi Engineering and Data Sciences, recently joined by senior leaders from McKinsey. Bright is a data-driven, fast-paced execution culture that will build a Global Consumer FinTech, all functions operating from India.\nWhat is the team & role about?\nThe Infrastructure/SRE team is responsible for building, managing, and scaling Bright Money’s cloud infrastructure to ensure our production systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient. The role involves owning AWS infrastructure, improving CI/CD and automation, strengthening observability and security, and ensuring the platform is prepared for incidents and disaster recovery.\nYou will work closely with engineering teams to operate production systems, automate infrastructure processes, improve system reliability, manage cloud costs, and build robust disaster recovery and failover capabilities.\nWhat you will do?\nInfrastructure Operations: Own and operate core production infrastructure on cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, observability, and scalability.\n\nIncident Management: Lead incident response and author formal Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports. Support the rollout of our new incident management platform and automated runbooks.\n\nCI/CD & Automation: Design and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines. 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