Site Reliability Engineer

About SmartAsset:

SmartAsset is on a mission to help people get better Financial Advice. Our vision is to be the web’s go to resource for financial advice powering the largest marketplace connecting consumers with financial advisors and financial products.

We have raised $110 Million in Series D Funding, bringing our valuation to over $1 Billion to further fuel SmartAsset’s continued growth of its market defining SmartAdvisor platform. Today, SmartAsset reaches more than 100 million people each month through its personal finance content, custom tools and personalized calculators. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator's list of Top 100 Companies of all time and Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2020.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, CNBC, FOX Business, The Washington Post, U.S. News World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek and Barron’s.  

About the Team: You’ll be working as part of a small but essential team making important decisions and improvements to our infrastructure. This team will branch into all aspects of our application and will provide expertise and support to other development teams when needed. You’ll get the opportunity to work with many other talented individuals and feel that you’re making an impact in the work that you’re doing.

About the Job: 

Responsibilities:

• Modernize the hosting infrastructure of our highest scale applications
• Using CI/CD best practices, improve the delivery of our large scale Java applications to the production environment
• Leverage infrastructure-as-code and AWS services to evolve our current infrastructure to be self healing and auto-scaling
• Improve the observability of the systems and use that data to make actionable alerts
• Respond to production instability within a predefined, shared schedule every 6-8 weeks
• Remove toil from the development team by automating repetitive tasks and creating self-service tools.
• Assist with the incident process to improve and maintain site stability.
• Write infrastructure-as-code in such a way that it can be leveraged across multiple applications

Skills / Experience You Have: 

• Experience with software provisioning tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Familiarity with AWS managed service offerings and able to design and implement solutions that use them.
• Experience building, deploying, and modifying CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab.
• Familiarity with NewRelic or other similar APM tools. 
• Experience with software monitoring and log aggregation tools. 

Skills / Experience Preferred: 

• Working knowledge of the Linux operating system.
• Knowledgeable about security best practices with experience implementing them at scale.
• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline.
• 2+ years of experience as a site reliability engineer.
• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, docker).
• Familiar with microservice and event driven architectures.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Information Technology or Computer Science.

Available Benefits and Perks: 

• All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the US.
• Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
• Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available 
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• FSA: Medical and Dependant Care 
• 401K - 3% match with immediate vesting
• Equity packages for each role
• Time Off:  PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave,  Secondary Caregiver Leave
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
• Pet Insurance
• Home Office Stipend
• Health and Wellness Stipend
• Monthly Food Delivery Stipend

SmartAsset is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at Recruiting@smartasset.com.