Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Join Altruist, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will focus on the performance and resilience of robust backend systems, collaborate with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams, and contribute to shared infrastructure solutions. You will also mentor teams in secure coding practices, implement best practice observability, own the incident response process, and employ automated testing practices. Enjoy competitive compensation, health benefits, and a commitment to inclusivity.

Contribuer à la performance et à la résilience des systèmes backend robustes, en collaborant avec les équipes produit et d'ingénierie.

About Altruist

• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way
• Expertise with AI (Claude ) best practices

Responsibilities

• Mentorer et guider les équipes dans la mise en œuvre de pratiques de codage sécurisées, en veillant à ce que le code soit performant et résilient.
• Posséder le processus de réponse aux incidents, y compris la conception et le suivi, et mettre en œuvre des pratiques d'observabilité.

Requirements

• Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives

Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs

• Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e. Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, and Snowflake)

Understand the importance of performant and reliable systems

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL)

Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems

• Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Software Engineering but experience and understanding are just as important
• Experience - 3+ years of experience building scalable backend services at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
• 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
• Knowledge of brokerage platforms and financial services industry
• Experience with managing tabletop exercises
• Proficient with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
• Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, pipelines in Gitlab a plus

Preferred

• Familiarity with tooling such as Terraform, Debezium, Temporal, and Open Telemetry

Pay

USD 181,000 - 225,000