Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.
*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC
The Platform Engineering team is responsible for enabling the organization by developing tooling and architectural patterns to leverage the public cloud in a reliable and scalable manner. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for the team as well as the organization and help evolve our technology through automation and reliable architecture as well help increase velocity by adoption of such implementations.
What you’ll do:
- Driving solutions and implementing systems that propel the organization as we leverage the capability of the Cloud to provide a seamless Platform.
- Compute Platform architecture and development (IaaS, PaaS)
- Core infrastructure tools and frameworks (Configuration Management, IAM, WAF, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, HA, kubernetes, Helm, FLux, Service Mesh, etc.)
- Provide expertise in the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
- Collaborate across Engineering and Product teams to translate application requirements to infrastructure capabilities
- Maintaining an automation centric vision and incorporating SRE methodologies in an effort to increase reliability and decreasing toil
- Involvement in technical design and architecture discussions and decisions as well as contributing to technical troubleshooting in various part of the stack
What’s great about the role:
- You will have the opportunity to contribute greatly to an extremely engineering-focused organization.
- Your contributions will have a noticeable impact on our members as well as your fellow Karmanauts (that’s what we call ourselves).
- You will be involved in organizational efforts of continuous improvement to increase and ensure the reliability of Credit Karma.
- You will get broad exposure to our full stack, consisting of desired and progressive technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Jenkins, etc.
- You will grow and learn and have fun doing it--it’s part of our culture.
- And, of course, all those awesome company perks that you have probably already read about.
Minimum Basic Requirement:
- 6+ years of experience in a web-centric Linux production environment building and architecting infrastructure to scale modern web applications and supporting components.
- Strong understanding of Computer Engineering with a focus on Infrastructure, Platform, and Application (Cloud, Containerization, Container orchestration, Network, Application Reliability, Database Architecture).
- Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
- Experience running Infrastructure at scale; utilizing Configuration Management and automation to ensure idempotency, ephemerality, and reliability.
- Strong experience in scripting or relevant programming skills (Python, Go or other higher-level OOP languages) for automating repetitive tasks.
- Deep understanding of container workload deployments as well as related orchestration technologies (ie: Kubernetes) as well as experience with securing Terraform Infrastructure as Code deployments.
- Familiar with SRE methodologies and passionate about solving operation problems by utilizing automation and software.
- Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
- Extensive experience securing GCP/AWS workloads in an enterprise-scale, mixed-vendor environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
- Eagerness to challenge the status quo, balanced with a reasonable and methodical approach to effecting change
- Self-starting attitude and fearless ascent up the learning curve. Thrives in a distributed workplace environment
- Advanced experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
- Experience working in a hybrid environment as well as Public Cloud, e.g. Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws.
Credit Karma is also committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.
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What We Do
Credit Karma is focused on championing financial progress for over 110 million members in the U.S., Canada and U.K. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for resources as they work toward their financial goals. This includes tools for credit and identity monitoring, credit card recommendations, shopping for loans (car, home and personal), and growing their savings* -- all for free. We’ve grown significantly through the years, adding more than 70 million members in the last five alone. We currently have more than 1,300 employees spread across offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and London.
Disrupting the financial industry is not an easy task. That’s why we know it’s one worth doing. Our core values of helpfulness, ownership, progress and empathy guide our work and our relationships.
Championing financial progress for everyone is a big mission that requires passionate people working together to make a difference in the world. If you’re up for the task, we’d love to have you on our team. Check out our open positions: https://www.creditkarma.com/careers.
*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC
Why Work With Us
We are a place to inspire, connect and grow. We are a diverse community of passionate people using innovation and technology to improve the lives of our members. We value our people and create ongoing opportunities for both personal and professional growth and connection. Doing good and making an impact is at the center of everything we do.