Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital missiondriven FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.
Varos SRE team is well established designing building and running largescale distributed faulttolerant systems that power most of Varos operations. We live and breathe AWS and Kubernetes having an open source first and result oriented mindset. We are an automation and observability focused team and we strive to automate ourselves out of manual / remedial tasks. We monitor and create dashboards to promote a datadriven approach to scale out our a typical day members of our team are handson scalingout production infrastructure building out CI/CD pipelines and brainstorming with developers on how to make things better. We collectively strive to build and maintain a rapidfeedback platform that enables our engineers to accomplish their own goals instead of creating friction.
What youll be doing
Take ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varos cloudbased infrastructure; design and maintain disaster recovery scenarios; design selfhealing and resiliency patterns
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 Varos 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 highprofile incidents and facilitate blameless postmortems
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
Youll bring the following required skills and experiences
8 years as a Site Reliability DevOps or Software Engineer with proficiency in one or more highlevel languages (such as Python GoLang Ruby Java or JavaScript) required
Excellent Linux and troubleshooting skills
Experience in building and supporting highavailability 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
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
Participate in an oncall rotation for afterhours production infrastructure incidents
Experience with SDLC CI/CD and related tooling
Kafka experience is a plus
$130000 $190000 a year
For cash compensation we set standard ranges for all USbased roles based on function level and geographic location benchmarked against similarstage growth companies. Per applicable law the salary range for this role is $130000 $190000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the identified range.
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We recognize not everyone will have all of these requirements. If you meet most of the criteria above and youre excited about the opportunity and willing to learn wed love to hear from you!
About Varo
Varo launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. Were a new kind of bank alldigital missiondriven FDICinsured and designed around the modern American consumer.
As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020 we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products insights and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customerfirst features we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.
We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco Salt Lake City and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies Forbes Fintech 50 and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000s list of fastestgrowing companies across the country.
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