Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Prove

27d • $160,000 - $170,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, implementing, maintaining and deploying highly available complex, scalable and reliable systems leveraging automation, effective monitoring and infrastructure-as code. Working closely with our application engineering teams to ensure our services meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and security.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering or equivalent experience. Software Engineering roles with a strong infrastructure and production engineering aspect also qualify.
• Expert knowledge of observability platforms and practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK stack / Splunk, etc)
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Spacelift, Pulumi)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language ( Go, Python )
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience working in a high compliance environment
• Hand-on experience instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Experience in the identity verification or financial technology industry
• Application development experience

Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions across our infrastructure and within applications
• Establish metrics, logging, and tracing systems that enable quick identification and resolution of issues
• Create alerting thresholds and automated responses based on service level objectives (SLOs)
• Provide actionable insights into service to service communications
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform
• Automate routine operational tasks to reduce toil and improve efficiency
• Ensure infrastructure security compliance and implement least-privilege access controls
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code deployments for container based applications
• Scale containers based on custom metrics for applications and critical observability infrastructure
• Conduct thorough post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
• Use observability data to perform root cause analysis and system improvements
• Participate in a 24/7 on call rotation to achieve 99.999% system availability.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
• Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
• 401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
• Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
• Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
• Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
• Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
• Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
• A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees