Varo Bank is hiring a
Sr. Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Varo as a Site Reliability Engineer, responsible for designing, building, and running large-scale distributed systems. Focus on availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, self-healing patterns, infrastructure as code, observability, monitoring, incident response, automation, and more.

Requirements

• 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)
• 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 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

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varo's cloud-based infrastructure
• Design and maintain disaster recovery scenarios
• 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
• Improve observability and monitoring across Varo's infrastructure
• Help implement advanced observability tools like distributed tracing and anomaly detection
• Collaborate with development teams to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs for their services
• Automate operational tasks to save time and improve accuracy
• Write clean and scalable code, software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications

Preferred Qualifications

Message Queue/Streams and Database (RDS) experience is a plus

Benefits

$160,000 - $225,000 a year