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Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Varo BankSalt Lake City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Jan 2023
About the role
Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.
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 automation and observability-focused team and we strive to automate ourselves out of manual/remedial tasks. We monitor and create dashboards to promote a data-driven approach to scaling out our platform. On a typical day, members of our team are hands-on scaling-out production infrastructure, building out CI/CD pipelines, and brainstorming with developers on how to make things better. We collectively strive to build and maintain a rapid-feedback platform that enables our engineers to accomplish their own goals instead of creating friction.
About VaroVaro launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all-digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer.
As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.
We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.
Varo. A bank for all of us.
Our Core Values- Customers First- Take Ownership- Respect- Stay Curious- Make it Better
Learn more about Varo by following us:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/varomoneyInstagram - www.instagram.com/varobankLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/varobankTwitter - https://twitter.com/varobankEngineering Blog - https://medium.com/engineering-varoSoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/varobank
Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to rac
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 automation and observability-focused team and we strive to automate ourselves out of manual/remedial tasks. We monitor and create dashboards to promote a data-driven approach to scaling out our platform. On a typical day, members of our team are hands-on scaling-out production infrastructure, building out CI/CD pipelines, and brainstorming with developers on how to make things better. 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 CI/CD pipelines
- Help lead high-profile incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems.
- Identify and improve gaps in observability for production infrastructure
- Working closely with development teams to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs for their services and to promote service ownership.
- Automate operational tasks to save time and improve accuracy
- Write clean and scalable scripts, software, and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
You’ll bring the following required skills and experiences
- 5+ years as a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineer with 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. Istio experience is a plus.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK/Loki
- Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents
- Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, and related tooling
- Kafka experience is a plus
About VaroVaro launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all-digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer.
As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.
We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.
Varo. A bank for all of us.
Our Core Values- Customers First- Take Ownership- Respect- Stay Curious- Make it Better
Learn more about Varo by following us:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/varomoneyInstagram - www.instagram.com/varobankLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/varobankTwitter - https://twitter.com/varobankEngineering Blog - https://medium.com/engineering-varoSoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/varobank
Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to rac
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