Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Altruist•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients. We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you! This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles (Culver City) or the San Francisco Bay Area (FiDi), with an expectation of being in the office at least three days per week. Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a high performing SRE to join our growing Platform team. In this role, you will focus on performance and resilience of robust backend systems across all product teams. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve challenging technical problems and deliver exceptional solutions. You will contribute to solutions with shared infrastructure that benefit all of Altruist.

Requirements

3+ years of experience building scalable backend services at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs.
Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL).
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
Understand the importance of performant and reliable systems
Technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e. Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, and Snowflake)
The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.
We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.
Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.
Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

Nice To Haves

Expertise with AI (Claude ) best practices
Proficient with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS.
Experience with managing tabletop exercises
Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, pipelines in Gitlab a plus.
Familiarity with tooling such as Terraform, Debezium, Temporal, and Open Telemetry
Knowledge of brokerage platforms and financial services industry.

Responsibilities

Mentor and guide teams in implementing secure coding practices to ensure code is both performant and resilient against security vulnerabilities.
Implement best practice observability with Open Telemetry, logging, standard SLOs.
Own the Incident Response process design and followups.
Employ automated testing practices to ensure high-quality code.

Benefits

Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX.
Competitive pay and equity for eligible positions.
Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO).
401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment.
Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.
Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.).
Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness, etc.).
One month work from anywhere policy (with the exception of a few countries).
Total compensation includes a competitive benefits package, along with a bonus program for eligible roles.