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Conversion Capital · 1 day ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Basis Theory is a company that offers a fully programmable vault for engaging commerce flows and managing compliance. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure systems are reliable and continuously improving, collaborate with teams to build a metrics-first culture, and drive deployment safety and performance.

Financial ServicesInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Hands-on member of engineering, with a focus on reliability, performance, and observability

Work closely with Principal Engineers and CTO to define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for key systems

Leading cost optimization efforts by improving our use of metrics vs. logs, right-sizing trace sampling, tuning ingestion/indexing, and exploring AWS-native monitoring alternatives

Building and improving tooling for local and automated performance testing, and tracking benchmarks over time to identify bottlenecks

Driving deployment safety and canary rollouts, using UAT as a testbed, and creating feedback loops that automatically assess rollout success

Leading chaos and resilience testing, including monthly tabletop exercises, failover drills, and continuous verification of redundancy assumptions

Partnering with Engineering to evolve scaling patterns (autoscaling, architectures, etc), including proactive action when new features or metrics reveal risk

Qualification

Cloud infrastructureObservability toolsCI/CD toolingSystems debuggingBackend programmingChaos engineeringPerformance optimizationOperational simplicityCollaboration