StarCompliance

Site Reliability Engineer US

Posted 4 Days Ago

Hiring Remotely in US

Remote

Senior level

Fintech • Analytics • Financial Services

The Role

The Site Reliability Engineer will enhance system reliability, implement observability tools, and collaborate with teams to improve SaaS applications.

Summary Generated by Built In

Location: Candidates MUST be US East Coast

About StarCompliance

StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency.

At StarCompliance, Site Reliability Engineers play a key role in ensuring that our SaaS platform can be safely promoted, operated, and evolved. This role sits within the Platform Engineering organisation and ultimately reports into the Head of Platform Engineering.

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys the challenge of driving the adoption of new processes enabling our software production systems scale and performance and collaborating with Technical Leads and QA to improve how our software is monitored and approved to move through environments. You will be part of high performance team responsible for the creation of the standards and building blocks supporting the deployment of production systems and enabling regular, high-quality releases across our platform estate.

Responsibilities

Operate and support production systems as part of an on-call and rota-based team.
Work closely with Technical Leads and QA to support software and database promotion practices that emphasise quality, performance, and stability.
Implement and maintain observability across services, including dashboards, alerts, and tracing.
Own, support and improve the production promotion and release process.
Own the incident response, triage, and resolution activities.
Assist with post-incident reviews and implementation of improvement actions.
Work with engineering teams to improve system resilience and operational readiness of their software products.
Automate operational tasks to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
Own the creation and maintenance of runbooks and operational documentation intended for consumption by internal, and wider teams.

Skills

Experience supporting production systems in cloud-hosted environments in Microsoft Azure.
Professional experience with a modern programming language beneficial.
Experience working with .NET-based systems is highly beneficial.
Experience working with Database systems is highly beneficial.
Experience working with Load Balancers is highly beneficial.
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
Scripting or automation experience is desirable.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Skills

Typically, 4–7 years of experience in SRE, operations, platform, or software engineering roles.
Experience working with SaaS or distributed systems.
Willingness to participate in on-call and rota-based support.

StarCompliance Background Checks

All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information. To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy.

Top Skills

AWS

Azure

Azure Devops

Bash

Datadog

New Relic

Powershell

Prometheus

Python

Terraform

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The Company

HQ: Rockville, MD

164 Employees

Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption.

Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.