Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Alloy is where you belong! 

Alloy solves the identity risk problem for companies that offer financial products by enabling them to outpace fraud and confidently serve more people around the world. Banks and Fintechs turn to Alloy to take control of fraud, credit, and compliance risk, and grow with the clearest picture of their customers.  

Through our values: Be Bold, Get Scrappy, Collaborate, and Celebrate Our Differences, we are creating a workplace where you can grow, thrive, and belong. See how we’ve been continuously recognized and named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers, Best Fintech to Work for by American Banker, year after year.  

Check out our investors and read more about us here.  

About the team

Alloy’s Infrastructure Team is composed of 5 engineers who are responsible for implementing, improving, and maintaining Alloy’s infrastructure. 

What you’ll be doing

Our services are used by leading fintechs and top tier banks. Our clients rely on Alloy’s uptime to serve their clients. Reporting into the Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, you'll help architect and build infrastructure solutions to improve our uptime and exceed our SLOs. We are looking for someone who has:

• Provisioned and managed a variety of AWS resources, using Terraform. 
• Implemented solutions for deploying applications to Kubernetes in production. 
• Helped architect and build secure and reliable systems and deployment pipelines.
• Comfort writing and reviewing code.
• Pragmatic thinking; you can justify when to build and when to buy. You recognize that what we’re creating is part of something bigger, and always try to eliminate constraints and keep releases flowing.
• Implemented and used tools like Datadog, Splunk, or Newrelic to find where the latency in distributed systems is coming from, then proposed and implemented solutions to reduce that latency. 
• Participated in on-call rotations, but you spend your day building systems that are resilient and self-healing, so alerts don’t happen.
  
  

Writing infrastructure as code

• Our infrastructure is represented in Terraform. You’ll be working with the team to make improvements to our IAC, as well as provision new infrastructure in support of our broader engineering goals. You will have access to the 

Automating 

• We use a collection of AWS Tools, Github Actions, third-party solutions, and custom scripts to automate releases, deployments, scaling events, and other actions. You’ll help improve existing automated processes as well as create new ones to improve resiliency, performance, and predictability.

Supporting application developers

• Our shared goal of shipping quality code means you’ll be looking for and eliminating constraints in the deployment pipeline, helping to maintain dev-prod parity, and looking for ways to ensure applications get to production quickly, predictably, and drama-free. 

Continuously improving

• You’ll be continuously looking for the opportunities to improve uptime, autoscaling and autorecovery, while reducing RTO and RPO of our products. Suggesting and implementing new cloud services and taking advantage of the latest AWS releases.
  Offering cost optimizations, improving our logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
  You’ll also participate in our on-call rotation. Fortunately, because of our focus on continuous improvement, resiliency, and automation, incidents are rare, recoverable, and quickly followed up by blameless postmortems.

You have:

• 4+ years of experience working on a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure team
• 5-8 years of technical experience, bonus points for software engineering experience
• Experience writing Infrastructure as Code
• Experience running and troubleshooting applications in Docker
• Solid experience with CI/CD with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Travis, etc
• Experience configuring and using tools like Datadog, Cloudwatch, ELK/EFK, etc for troubleshooting
• Experience being in an on-call rotation
• Practical experience scripting (bash, python, etc) 
• Programming experience with one or more of python, javascript, golang, etc
• You’ve provisioned production resources in AWS, GCP, or Azure using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools. 
• Enthusiasm for a hybrid schedule, as we're in person on Tuesdays & Thursdays.

At Alloy, we strive to attract & retain talent by providing compensation that is competitive with other organizations of our size & stage. We are committed to ensuring each candidate has what they need to be successful in their role with a balanced range of compensation, equity, perks & benefits. We actively share our compensation philosophy with employees, with the goal of fostering open and honest dialogue. Finally, we work to administer our philosophy and drive consistency in order to promote equity and monitor the fairness of each outcome.

This position has a minimum base salary of $194,000 and a midpoint base salary of $228,000. The base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs). 

Benefits and Perks 

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
• Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation 
• Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave 
• Home office stipend for new employees
• Learning & Development annual stipend
• Well-being benefits include access to OneMedical, Headspace, and more

We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?

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Alloy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and employer. We’re committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status. We are committed to an inclusive interview experience and provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with visible and invisible disabilities. We encourage applicants to share needed accommodations with their recruiter.