Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Altruist

• Experience - 7+ years of experience building scalable backend services at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
• Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs
• Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL)
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Understand the importance of performant and reliable systems
• Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Software Engineering but experience and understanding are just as important
• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e. Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, and Snowflake)
• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way
• Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives
• Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
• Expertise with AI (Claude ) best practices
• If you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways

Desirable

• Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a high performing Staff SRE to join our growing Platform team
• In this role, you will focus on performance and resilience of robust backend systems across all product teams
• You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve challenging technical problems and deliver exceptional solutions
• You will contribute to solutions with shared infrastructure that benefit all of Altruist
• Mentor and guide teams in implementing secure coding practices to ensure code is both performant and resilient against security vulnerabilities
• Implement best practice observability with Open Telemetry, logging, standard SLOs,
• You will own the Incident Response process design and followups
• Employ automated testing practices to ensure high-quality code