Software Engineer, Reliability

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. 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 Amazon DoorDash Kia Kimpton McDonalds and Netflix.

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.

As a Software Engineer II on the Site Reliability Engineering team within the Platform Engineering group at Checkr you will identify reliability challenges impacting engineering teams and platforms and develop innovative solutions to resolve them. You will strive towards the right balance between enforcing standardization and accommodating tailored workflows. The person in this role will have the opportunity to demonstrate a degree of autonomy in their work and help with complex support requests while having an impact across engineering.

What youll do:

• Design build ship and maintain the core observability libraries tools and patterns used by all of Checkrs engineering teams
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack with respect to performance availability and data quality
• Participate in a cross-organization incident response team driving continuous improvement
• Contribute to architectural discussions within the SRE team and with cross-functional teams
• Influence cross-team projects and the reliability roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
• Provide consultation and feedback across teams to ensure we are building highly reliable efficient and scalable systems

What you bring:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of software engineering experience including 1 years focused on reliability scalability and efficiency of distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python (preferred) Go or Ruby within Linux environments and strong understanding of microservices asynchronous systems and remote APIs.
• Experience developing and operating production customer-facing systems in AWS or Azure using Kubernetes Docker and Terraform.
• Skilled in observability and incident response practices using tools such as Datadog Splunk Grafana Prometheus and OpenTelemetry with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong collaboration documentation and communication skills with experience leading small projects promoting platform adoption and fostering a self-service product-first mindset.
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar move with urgency stay resilient through ambiguity and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

What youll get:

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical dental and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility adoption and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend

At Checkr we believe an in office work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA Nashville TN and Santiago Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a -office perks are provided such as lunch five 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.

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