About the Role
Title: Site Reliability Engineer III
Location: United States
Job Description:
Too many people in the U.S. continue to be left behind by traditional financial services institutions. At Stash, an investing app with more than 2 million active subscribers, were on a mission to address that reality by empowering people to invest and build better lives. Were turning money into a source of hope and opportunity and giving our customers the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future.
Its an exciting time to be a Stasher! Bolstered by a new slate of world-class leaders and a fresh round of financing, were headed into our next phase of growth with momentum. Weve implemented product enhancements that make it easier for individuals to start their financial journey with us, and operational changes to help us deliver for and support our customers with optimal speed, rigor, and transparency. Also in the past year, Stash launched its groundbreaking back-end infrastructure, Stash Core, allowing the company to exceed 70% in gross margin as it marches towards profitability.
Our team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for building a reliable, scalable, and performant cloud infrastructure and tools to power the Stash experience.
Weve had tremendous growth over the past 2 years and to support these initiatives, Stash will be expanding our team that supports our cloud infrastructure. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be working to build out and scale our infrastructure platform and processes that are the bedrock of Stash.
What youll do:
- Architect, design, and implement infrastructure services on AWS involving network infrastructure, load balancers, and containerized workloads, as well as application performance monitoring and logging.
- Lead operational health, maintenance, optimization, and security initiatives at our cloud environment.
- Coordinate with Engineers, SRE, Backend Engineers, and product teams to support end-to-end delivery of software components from inception to production.
What were looking for:
- Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in building and deploying Internet services and APIs.
- Experience with AWS and handling applications under high network load.
- Experience managing containerized workloads.
- Experience in configuring and deploying Nginx reverse proxies and load balancers.
- Experience in monitoring production workloads.
- Comprehensive understanding of networking and application protocols (TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP/S, TLS, SSH, etc.)
- A data-driven decision maker who’s willing to take risks, fail quickly, and iterate rapidly.
- A creative problem solver with a passion for testing, debugging, and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
Gold Stars:
- Experience working with Terraform (or Terraform Enterprise)
- Familiarity with microservice-based architecture
- Proficiency with AWS EKS and K8
- Experience with scripting languages such as Go and Python
