Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Developer Experience
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Developer Experience
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$ 175000 - 205000
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About Betterment
Betterment is a leading technologydriven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions including a 401(k) for small and mediumsized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making peoples lives better. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NYbased positions (three days/ week inoffice).
About the role
Site Reliability Engineerings Developer Experience (DX) squad is a key partner across the organization dedicated to enabling smooth efficient and reliable workflows for engineers at every stage of the development lifecycle.
We do this by building tools for our development teams improving reliability and performance of our systems and enabling monitoring and visibility into our services. This helps us move faster and smarter within a highly regulated and secure environment. We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform including AWS Datadog CircleCI and write our code in Ruby on Rails and Go. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the DX squad youll help deliver new tools and systems that make engineering more impactful as well as maintain and improve current systems alongside a team of amazing engineers.
This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday weekly. Below weve reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterments total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $175000 $205000
We offer a competitive equity package health dental and vision benefits life and AD&D shortterm and longterm disability insurance EAP commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.
A day in the life
- Create semantically rich abstractions for every aspect of development
- Maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
- Manage and optimize developer toolsets and environments
- Implement and monitor servicelevel objectives and indicators
- Oversee repositories for compiled code or binaries like Artifactory or GitHub Packages
- Make substantial code contributions to our applications and systems
- Weigh in on design documents and perform code review providing valuable and actionable feedback to peers
- Participate in on call cycles and help drive a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with purpose. Youll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterments revolutionary software even better.
- Find ways to spread knowledge across the organization leveling up engineering practices and mentoring other engineers.
- Work with people who care. Were a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves on what we do. Were smart innovative energetic and lots of fun.
What were looking for
- Experience building reliable scalable and secure cloud native solutions we use AWS
- Extensive knowledge and experience building CI/CD pipelines with a developer first mindset
- A deep understanding of software development best practices
- Familiarity with containerbased applications
- Passion for software engineering as a craft and for creating what doesnt yet exist
- Ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
- Appreciation for agility and pragmatism
What being at Betterment means for you
We change lives
Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission: making peoples lives better.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company our customers and ourselvesand we wont stop until we reach them. We dont just show up; we give our all then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate were at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We invest in you with:
- A competitive suite of benefits including: medical dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
- Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
- Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
- Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
- Dedicated professional development opportunities
- Lunch from our inhouse chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
Well take a few weeks to review all applications. If wed like to spend more time with you well reach out to arrange next steps which will include 34 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process well look to learn more about your skills experiences capabilities and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average it takes us around 35 weeks to make a hiring decision depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice we aim to interview at least 23 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions were unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process please reach out to your recruiter.
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Come join us!
Were an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color religion creed national origin or ancestry ethnicity sex gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual) sexual orientation marital status age physical or mental disability citizenship past current or prospective service in the uniformed services predisposing genetic characteristic domestic violence victim status arrest records or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.
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Betterment participates in EVerify. We will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employees Form I9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to prescreen job applicants.
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We collect and store personal information for the purposes of candidate tracking (for this role and future opportunities). The information you provide in the course of completing your application will be kept for up to 24 months. We use tools provided by thirdparty service providers but do not share candidate information for any purpose other than for recruiting. To access the data that is collected request deletion or to make updates to your candidate profile please email .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
