Sr. Platform Engineer

Posted 3 Hours Ago
Hiring Remotely in US
Remote
160K-225K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Fintech • Payments
Varo made history: the first and only consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter by the OCC!
The Role
The Sr. Platform Engineer will take ownership of Varo's cloud infrastructure, designing disaster recovery scenarios and self-healing patterns. Responsibilities include writing infrastructure as code, improving observability with advanced tools, collaborating on service ownership, and automating operational tasks while ensuring high availability and performance of systems.
Summary Generated by Built In

Varo’s SRE team is well established, designing, building, and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems that power most of Varo's operations. We live and breathe AWS and Kubernetes, having an open source first and result oriented mindset.


We are an automation and observability focused team and we strive to use tooling and automation to provide value to our customers. We empower service teams so they can monitor and create dashboards to promote a data-driven approach to scale out our platform. 


On a typical day, members of our team are hands-on in scaling-out production infrastructure, increasing performance and reliability, and collaborating with other teams to improve our internal developer platform. We collectively strive to build and maintain a rapid-feedback platform that enables our engineers to accomplish their own goals instead of creating friction.

What you'll be doing

  • Take ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varo's cloud-based infrastructure; design and maintain disaster recovery scenarios; design self-healing and resiliency patterns
  • Write and maintain infrastructure as code for core systems (terraform, terraform modules and kubernetes helm charts); build and maintain new platform systems; architect new solutions; build repeatable processes; implement declarative infrastructure
  • Improve observability and monitoring across Varo's infrastructure by implementing advanced tools and technologies. Create and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and log systems to quickly identify and resolve issues
  • Help implement advanced observability tools like distributed tracing and anomaly detection for deeper system insights and efficient troubleshooting
  • Help lead high-profile incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems
  • Collaborate with development teams to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs for their services and to promote service ownership. Use monitoring data to drive actionable insights and contribute to incident response strategies
  • Automate operational tasks to save time and improve accuracy
  • Write clean and scalable code, software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.

You'll bring the following required skills and experiences

  • 9+ years as a Site Reliability, Platform, or Software Engineer
  • 6+ years of proficiency in one or more high-level languages (such as Python, GoLang, Ruby, Java, or JavaScript) required
  • Excellent Linux and troubleshooting skills 
  • Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS
  • Experience using Infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab or equivalent
  • Experience running Kubernetes in production is a must. Istio experience is a plus
  • Experience required with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry, Opensearch, and Cloudwatch
  • Experience instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating simple instrumentation frameworks for developers to adopt where auto instrumentation may fall short
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents
  • Experience with SDLC and related tooling
  • Message Queue/Streams and Database (RDS) experience is a plus

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Top Skills

Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

We're on a mission to empower hard-working Americans to achieve greater financial resilience; arming them with the products and support they need to create healthy financial habits.

Why Work With Us

We’re working toward our mission with a team that uniquely and strategically combines banking veterans with technology experts. The banking experts provide decades of industry experience, and the tech experts can build a mobile app that offers everyone access to no-cost, premium banking, including high-yield savings and auto-saving tools.

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