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Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Department: Platform Engineering
Reports To: Manager, Site Reliability
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Chicago, IL; Denver, CO
Job Summary
We are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, deploying, and maintaining high-availability infrastructure leveraging automation, infrastructure-as code, and advanced monitoring. You’ll partner closely with our application engineering teams to ensure our services meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and security.
Key Responsibilities
Staff SREs at Prove are responsible for driving 99.999% uptime for existing and developing products. Implementing, automating, and developing infrastructure are methods to these outcomes. Qualified candidates will be well versed in the difference between methods and ownership of outcomes and be able to demonstrate and document their previous relevant experience.
Lead
- Guide infrastructure system design and application architecture within Platform Engineering and across engineering teams
- Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code standards using tools like Terraform and/or OpenTofu
- Act as a strong technical partner with our engineering teams
- Champion observability with product owners and engineering teams
Optimize
- Improve new and existing systems by increasing reliability, performance, and scalability
- Automate routine operational tasks to reduce toil and improve efficiency
- Ensure infrastructure security compliance and implement least-privilege access controls
- Enhance existing CI/CD pipelines and feedback loops for maximum reliability
- Enable auto-scaling infrastructure based on custom metrics for applications and critical observability infrastructure
Respond
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, respond to our most critical alerts and resolve challenging events
- Conduct thorough post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
- Use observability data to perform root cause analysis and identify system improvements
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Software Engineering roles with a strong infrastructure, operations, and/or production engineering aspect also qualify.
- 4+ years of experience in technical project leadership
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Expert knowledge of observability platforms and practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK stack)
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Spacelift, OpenTofu)
- Skilled proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
- Experience working in a high compliance environment
- Hand-on experience instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry
- Deep familiarity with service mesh technologies
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience in the identity verification or financial technology industry
- Application development experience
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $180,000 - $210,000 plus variable commission / company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:
- Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
- Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
- 401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
- Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
- Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
- Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
- Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
- Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
- A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics
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