Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Altruist • Los Angeles, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a high performing Staff 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

• 7+ 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
• Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Software Engineering but experience and understanding are just as important
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree