January · 2 months ago
Senior SRE, Software Engineering
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$205K/yr - $225K/yrJanuary is transforming the lives of borrowers by bringing humanity to consumer finance. As a Senior SRE, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of January's systems while establishing SRE practices and tackling scaling challenges.
Consumer LendingCreditFinancial ServicesFinTechOnline Portals
Responsibilities
Lead incident response and establish sustainable on-call practices, including comprehensive runbooks, blameless postmortems, and systematic improvements that reduce MTTR
Develop and maintain self-service observability solutions using modern monitoring tools that provide actionable insights for troubleshooting and performance optimization
Create and maintain infrastructure as code (using Terraform, CloudFormation) that allows for consistent, scalable, and secure cloud environments on AWS
Partner closely with feature teams to architect resilient infrastructure for critical components (databases, networking, async workflows, data pipelines) that scale seamlessly
Work closely with DevX to design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary) that enable teams to ship confidently and rapidly
Advocate for best practices early in feature design, ensuring we design with reliability in mind and future-proof our services
Qualification
Required
Expertise leading incident response for high-availability production systems, thorough root cause analysis, and fostering blameless postmortem culture
Experience designing highly available deployment architectures across multiple targets (e.g. EC2, Fargate), with expertise in auto-scaling, health checks, and graceful degradation strategies
Track record of implementing effective monitoring & observability solutions (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK), and evangelizing best practices
Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation to enable reliable, efficient deployments
Excellent communication skills with experience documenting processes and collaborating across engineering teams
Company
January
A transparent debt resolution platform humanizing the consumer debt collection industry
Founded in 2016
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
2022 (1)
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2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$22MKey Investors
IA Ventures
2023-12-04Series B· $12M
2022-03-30Series A· $10M
Leadership Team
Jake Cahan
CEO & Founder
Recent News
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