Varo Bank is hiring a
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer at Varo, responsible for managing large-scale distributed systems using AWS and Kubernetes. The role involves designing disaster recovery scenarios, writing infrastructure as code, improving observability, creating monitoring dashboards, implementing advanced observability tools, collaborating with development teams, automating operational tasks, and participating in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 4+ 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
• Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents
• Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, 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 CI/CD pipelines
• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Istio experience is a plus
• Experience with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry
• Experience instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating simple instrumentation frameworks for developers to adopt where auto instrumentation may fall short
• Kafka experience is a plus

Benefits

$150,000 - $190,000 a year