Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Addepar's Production Engineering and SRE team as a highly experienced and impactful colleague to drive the transformation of its platform. This role focuses on evolving the platform towards high-level declarative infrastructure orchestration and its operations, closely integrating compute, network, and storage control planes. You will lead the implementation, maintenance, and strategic evolution of Addepar's production infrastructure, bringing innovative solutions across functional teams and extensive hands-on development experience. The ideal candidate will design, deploy, monitor, automate, and optimize all operational aspects of Addepar's platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and efficiency. This position offers a competitive salary range of $144,000-$225,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits. The specific salary range will be discussed during the hiring process.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of progressive experience in the SRE/DevOps/Systems Engineer field, with a track record of taking on increasing responsibility
• Expert-level understanding of Cloud Infrastructure fundamentals (AWS preferred) , including advanced networking, security, and managed services
• Exceptional Programming/Scripting skills in various common languages (Python , Bash, and general Linux tools are essential; Java is a strong plus), with an emphasis on building scalable, maintainable automation and tools
• Broad and deep expertise with UNIX/BSD/Linux internals (Ubuntu preferred) , including performance tuning, kernel-level debugging, and advanced system administration
• Extensive Containerization experience with k8s (KOPS, EKS, ECS preferred) , including cluster management, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and advanced deployment strategies
• Demonstrable experience leading initiatives with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform in complex, multi-account environments
• Proficient experience with comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Sumologic, or advanced AWS cloud-native tools, with a focus on observability strategy
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with multi-functional teams, articulate complex technical concepts, and influence outcomes

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of container infrastructure using Kubernetes (k8s), ensuring high availability, performance, and security
• Architect, build, and maintain advanced, automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS CodeBuild/Pipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar, establishing best practices for deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary)
• Drive the adoption and evangelism of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, focusing on scaling the Addepar Platform across regions with a focus on cost optimization and operational efficiency
• Develop deep application-level knowledge to proactively inform and influence infrastructure requirements and constraints for Developers, QA, and Management, including implementing sophisticated dashboards for Cost and Inventory management, performance analysis, and capacity planning
• Perform advanced monitoring and troubleshooting of our infrastructure and application stack using a wide array of logging/monitoring tools, driving root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures
• Initiate and lead collaborations with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve complex Application or infrastructure issues, serving as a technical subject matter expert
• Serve as a primary on-call responder for critical incidents , demonstrating strong problem-solving skills under pressure and contributing to post-incident reviews to improve system resilience

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience writing and contributing to significant systems automation tooling or open-source projects is a strong plus
• Exposure to industry practices in financial services is a plus

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity