Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Branch

1d•$175,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture. We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together. Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans. As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead Branch’s effort to achieve greater reliability, performance, scalability, capacity and observability of our platform through automation and tooling. You will also participate in and improve the software development and deployment life cycles as well as develop and implement technical best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in an appropriate engineering discipline or equivalent experience required
3+ years experience in site reliability engineering
Strong hands-on experience building and operating Java / Spring Boot services in production
Experience with Terraform, Go, Java, Gradle, Docker, OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes

Nice To Haves

Experience in scripting using Python and Bash
Experience developing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators
Exposure to Google Pub/Sub, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, Google Spanner and MySQL
Experience with JVM performance tuning and profiling
Experience working on GCP platforms

Responsibilities

Partner with Developers to produce high-performing and robust services through rigorous testing and release procedures
Design infrastructure, monitoring, processes, and standards for systems and applications
Support services through design, development, load testing, and launch phases
Develop, measure, and monitor key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health
Define and establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners, and drive adoption across platform teams
Profile and optimize platform performance, resilience, and efficiency, including latency, throughput, and capacity planning under load
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
Remediate tasks and develop preventative and automated measures to meet SLAs/SLOs/SLIs
Manage monitoring services utilized by applications