Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Checkr • San Francisco, CA

106d • $162,000 - $191,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Platform team, you will identify issues and technical challenges across the engineering teams and platforms, develop innovative solutions to resolve them, and drive their adoption. You will strive towards the right balance between enforcing standardization and accommodating tailored workflows. The person in this role will have the opportunity to demonstrate a degree of autonomy in their work and help with complex support requests, while having an impact across engineering.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 6+ years of experience in building tools with Python (preferred), GoLang, or Ruby
• 6+ years of experience in maintaining and observing production customer-facing environments in AWS or Azure
• 6+ years of experience as a member of an incident response team
• Deep understanding of the fundamental infrastructure and platform concepts behind a micro-service architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous queueing models
• Experience with observability platforms and frameworks like Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
• Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
• Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform
• Experience driving platform adoption across engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
• A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
• Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices

Responsibilities

• Collaborate, drive, and execute architectural discussions with cross-functional teams
• Lead cross-team projects and SREs' technical roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
• Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr's engineering teams
• Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality
• Present detailed technical information and benefits of the Checkr platform to a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives

Benefits

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree