Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Varo launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system.

Varo Bank

Employee count: 1001-5000

United States only

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Varo’s SRE team is well established, designing, building, and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems that power most of Varo's operations. We live and breathe AWS and Kubernetes, having an open source first and result oriented mindset. We are an automation and observability focused team and we strive to automate ourselves out of manual / remedial tasks. We monitor and create dashboards to promote a data-driven approach to scale out our platform. On a typical day, members of our team are hands-on scaling-out production infrastructure, building out CI/CD pipelines, and brainstorming with developers on how to make things better. We collectively strive to build and maintain a rapid-feedback platform that enables our engineers to accomplish their own goals instead of creating friction.

What you'll be doing

Take ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varo's cloud-based infrastructure; design and maintain disaster recovery scenarios; design self-healing and resiliency patterns
Write and maintain infrastructure as code for core systems (Terraform, Terraform modules and Kubernetes helm charts); build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Improve observability and monitoring across Varo's infrastructure by implementing advanced tools and technologies
Create and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and log systems to quickly identify and resolve issues
Implement advanced observability tools like distributed tracing and anomaly detection for deeper system insights and efficient troubleshooting
Help lead high-profile incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems
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

You’ll bring the following required skills and experiences

4+ years 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
Excellent Linux and troubleshooting skills
Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS
Experience using Infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab or equivalent
Experience running Kubernetes in production
Istio experience is a plus
Experience with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, 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
Kafka experience is a plus

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About the job

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Aug 07, 2024

Posted on

Jun 08, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Location requirements

United States

Hiring timezones

United States +/- 0 hours

About Varo Bank

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Varo launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all-digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer.

As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.

We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.

Varo. A bank for all of us.

Tech stack

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Spring

Next.js

JavaScript

Python

HTML5

Java

CSS 3

Kotlin

Swift

GraphQL

gRPC

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Employee benefits

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Equity benefits

Every employee gets equity, so you are rewarded for your best work.

Unlimited vacation policy

Varo Bank offers an unlimited vacation policy, providing flexibility for employees to manage their time off.

Company-sponsored outings

Employees can enjoy company-sponsored outings and office perks, fostering a vibrant and engaging work environment.

Financial & retirement benefits

Varo Bank provides 401(k) company equity and various financial benefits, promoting financial security and well-being for employees.

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