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Varo Bank · 1 week ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$200K/yr - $220K/yr
12+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of SREs, driving best practices and fostering a culture of reliability and performance
Provide strategic direction in the design, implementation, and management of scalable and resilient cloud-based infrastructure on AWS
Oversee the implementation and optimization of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and monitoring
Supervise the utilization of Prometheus and Grafana for effective monitoring and visualization of system metrics and health
Manage the design and implementation of service meshes with Istio to ensure secure and reliable service communication
Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including incident response, post-mortem analysis, and capacity planning. Help lead high-profile incidents and facilitate a blameless culture
Collaborate with development teams and service owners to ensure alignment with reliability and performance goals
Contribute to the technical roadmaps and Objective and Key Results (OKRs) by providing leadership and insights on improving system reliability, scalability, and performance
Write and maintain infrastructure as code for core systems (terraform, terraform modules, and kubernetes helm charts); build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Collaborate with development teams to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs for their services and to promote service ownership. Use monitoring data to drive actionable insights and contribute to incident response strategies
Automate operational tasks to save time and improve accuracy
Write clean and scalable scripts, software, and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
Qualification
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Required
Minimum 12 years experience as a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineer with proficiency in one or more high-level languages (such as Python, GoLang, Ruby, Java, or JavaScript) required
Proven leadership with demonstrated experience in SRE team settings, with a focus on driving and architecting projects
Expert Linux and troubleshooting skills.
Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS
Expertise using Infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab or equivalent
Experience running Kubernetes and Istio in production
Advanced Observability skills with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, and OpenTelemetry
Experience instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating simple instrumentation frameworks for developers to adopt where auto instrumentation may fall short
Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents
Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, and related tooling
Preferred
Kafka and message streaming experience is a plus
Company
Varo Bank
Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives.
501-1,000 employees
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2021 (23)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Colin Walsh
Founder and CEO
Max Doerfler
Chief of Staff to CEO
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