Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Altruist•San Francisco, CA

37d•Hybrid

About The Position

Altruist is seeking a high-performing Staff SRE to join their growing Platform team. This role focuses on the performance and resilience of robust backend systems across all product teams. The Staff SRE will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve challenging technical problems and deliver exceptional solutions. A key aspect of this role is contributing to shared infrastructure that benefits 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.
Technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e. Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, and Snowflake).
Pride in every aspect of your work.
Intentional dialogue: listen as well as share perspective.
Unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity.
Confident, yet ego-less with strong knowledge base, ability to discover the unknown, and openness to differing perspectives.
Creative problem solving skills.

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).
Bonus program for eligible roles.