Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 190000 - 224000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014 Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart and Airtable.
Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
About the role:
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer within the Platform group at Checkr you will play a crucial role in advancing the reliability of our products in our mission to create the data platform of the future. Our SRE team focuses our engineering expertise on fostering service resiliency scalability and efficiency. The person in this role will identify engineering challenges across the organization and its services lead the development of innovative solutions to resolve them and drive their adoption.
Who You Are:
- Proactive in owning and improving reliability and resiliency at scale
- Motivated by sharing knowledge and excited by what can be done when a group of people is aligned in their vision
- Passionate about customer-centricity leading by example and building relationships across the organization
- Unwavering in your commitment to operational security and best practices
What Youll Do:
- Collaborate and drive architectural discussions across a wide array of customers including operations developers technical architects and executives
- Lead reliability roadmap planning and cross-team project execution to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
- Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability efficiency and scalability
- Participate in a cross-organization incident response team driving continuous improvement
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack with respect to performance availability and data quality
- Design build ship and maintain the core observability libraries tools and patterns used by all of Checkrs engineering teams
What You Bring:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent education/training
- 10 years of industry experience in software engineering including 5 years of engineering for systems reliability scalability and efficiency
- Strong proficiency in developing solutions in Python (preferred) GoLang or Ruby in Linux environments
- Deep understanding of the fundamental infrastructure and platform concepts behind microservice architectures asynchronous systems and remote APIs
- Strong collaboration documentation communication and project management skills
- Proficiency in developing and operating production customer-facing environments in AWS or Azure using solutions such as Kubernetes Docker and Terraform
- Demonstrated ability to establish service observability standards and leverage platforms and frameworks like Datadog Splunk Grafana Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
- Proven track record of advancing incident management practices and driving continuous improvement
- Leadership skills and a passion for mentoring more junior engineers
- History of leading platform adoption across engineering teams guided by a self-service and product-first approach
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Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkrs core values is Transparency. To live by that value weve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy see our website.
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco CA)
$190000 - $224000 USD
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver CO)
$161000 - $189000 USD
At Checkr we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA and Santiago Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. Starting January 2026 hub-based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per -office perks are provided such as lunch four times a week a commuter stipend and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local state and/or federal laws including the San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance.
*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g. or ).
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
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