Site Reliability Engineer

Job title: Site Reliability Engineer in Denver, CO at Checkr Company: Checkr Job description: About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr's innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.We're a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on and is a Y Combinator 2024 .About the role:As a Site Reliability Engineer II on the Platform team, you will uncover issues and technical challenges across the engineering teams and platforms, and develop creative solutions to resolve them. You will strive towards the right balance between enforcing standardization and accommodating uniqueness. The person in this role will have a chance to demonstrate a degree of autonomy with their work and help with complex support requests and have an impact across engineering.Who You Are:

• You have a strong sense of ownership with a proactive nature
• You are motivated by sharing knowledge and excited by what can be done when a group of people are aligned in their vision
• You possess a great desire to collaborate, improve, and innovate
• You are passionate about observability at scale and finding solutions to issues.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate, drive, and execute architectural discussions with cross-functional teams
• Influence cross team projects and SREs technical roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
• Design, build, ship, and maintain the core software libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr's engineering teams
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality
• Provide consultation and feedback across teams to ensure we are building highly reliable systems
• Present detailed technical information and benefits of the Checkr platform to a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives

What You Bring:

• Degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 3+ years experience as a software engineer (Ruby, Python, or GoLang)
• 3+ years experience in maintaining and observing production customer facing environments in AWS or Azure
• 3+ Experience as incident commander or response team member of an outages in production
• Experience with containers and container orchestration
• Understanding of the basic concepts of infrastructure behind a micro-service architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous queueing models
• Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
• Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
• A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
• Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices

What you'll get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.One of Checkr's core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we've made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see .The base salary range for this role is $114,000 to $134,000 in Denver, CO.Equal Employment Opportunities at CheckrCheckr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the . Expected salary: $114000 - 134000 per year Location: Denver, CO Apply for the job now! Apply for this job