Varo Bank is hiring a
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Remote - United States
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Summary
The job is for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Varo. The role involves leading an SRE team, designing and implementing scalable cloud infrastructure, overseeing observability solutions, managing service meshes, and contributing to the technical roadmap. The candidate should have 12 years of experience as a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineer with proficiency in high-level languages, expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and more.
Requirements
- Minimum 12 years experience 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
- Proven leadership with demonstrated experience in SRE team settings, with a focus on driving and architecting projects
- Expert Linux and troubleshooting skills
- Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS
- Expertise using Infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab or equivalent
- Experience running Kubernetes and Istio in production
- Advanced Observability skills with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, and OpenTelemetry
- 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, CI/CD, and related tooling
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of SREs, driving best practices and fostering a culture of reliability and performance
- Provide strategic direction in the design, implementation, and management of scalable and resilient cloud based infrastructure on AWS
- Oversee the implementation and optimization of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and monitoring
- Supervise the utilization of Prometheus and Grafana for effective monitoring and visualization system metrics and health
- Manage the design and implementation of service meshes with Istio to ensure secure and reliable service communication
- Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including incident response, post-mortem analysis and capacity planning. Help lead high-profile incidents and facilitate a blameless culture
- Collaborate with development teams and service owners to ensure alignment with reliability and performance goals
- Contribute to the technical roadmaps and Objective and Key Results (OKRs) by providing leadership and insights on improving system reliability, scalability, and performance
- Write and maintain infrastructure as code for core systems (terraform, terraform modules and kubernetes helm charts); build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- 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
- Write clean and scalable scripts, software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
Preferred Qualifications
Kafka and message streaming experience is a plus
Benefits
$200,000 - $220,000 a year
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