Site Reliability Engineer, Earnin
$189-232k
+ equity
2 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
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501-1000 employees
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$189-232k
+ equity
2 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that works for people.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- 3+ years of experience in SRE, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related role
- Hands-on coding experience in Python, Go, or similar production-oriented programming languages
- Experience operating production systems and contributing to reliability, observability, incident response, infrastructure, or automation improvements
- Working knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, MTTR, and how reliability data informs engineering tradeoffs
- Experience using logs, metrics, dashboards, traces, and alerts to diagnose production issues
- Experience with distributed systems concepts such as retries, backoff, timeouts, graceful degradation, capacity planning, and failure isolation
- Experience improving alert quality, runbooks, incident processes, and follow-through after production issues
- Ability to communicate clearly, write useful documentation, and explain reliability concepts in plain language
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools as part of your software development or operational workflow
- Interest in using AI-assisted workflows to reduce toil, accelerate investigation, improve infrastructure-as-code workflows, and strengthen operational practices
- Interest in mentoring peers and growing your impact across teams over time
What the job involves
- This role enables EarnIn to build and run production systems with greater resilience, clarity, and confidence. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will strengthen infrastructure, optimize tooling, deepen observability, streamline incident response, and elevate reliability standards. These actions empower teams to ship quickly and safely
- You will operate as a well-rounded SRE practitioner across production operations, observability, incident response, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and software engineering
- You will demonstrate growing independence in reliability work. You will not only follow existing playbooks, but also refine them. You will transform production learnings into better alerts, clearer runbooks, safer deployments, stronger observability, and more reliable services
- You will harness AI-assisted development and operational workflows to minimize toil, accelerate investigation, enhance documentation, and streamline infrastructure and reliability work. You will meticulously validate AI-generated output before applying it to production systems or operational workflows
- You will collaborate with product engineering and platform teams to implement, explain, and support reliability practices, ensuring they are practical, understandable, and actionable
- Design and improve systems with resilience and graceful degradation in mind. Plan for capacity and possible failure modes
- Define and measure SLOs and SLIs that reflect customer experience and help teams make better reliability tradeoffs
- Use observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, logs, metrics, traces, and APM. Build signal-heavy, noise-light visibility into production systems
- Configure and improve alerting and routing through incident management workflows. Make sure pages are actionable, well-routed, and worth human attention
- Participate in incident response from detection and triage through communication, resolution, postmortems, and follow-up
- Continuously improve the incident lifecycle. Focus on better detection, clearer runbooks, stronger postmortems, and concrete remediations
- Construct or optimize infrastructure, reliability tooling, and automation that eliminate toil and ensure operational consistency
- Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate coding and documentation. Speed up root-cause exploration, runbook improvement, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and operational tasks
- Help engineering teams improve production readiness and deployment safety. Support service ownership and operational clarity
- Communicate reliability concepts clearly across technical and non-technical teams
- Document operational knowledge to reduce silos. Make it easier for engineers to respond with confidence
- Contribute to a culture where reliability is shared by SRE and product engineering teams
Our take
Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their paychecks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.
Unlike competitors in this growing space, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of business customers who offer Earnin as an employee benefit.
Earnin has managed to continue its steady growth even while the wider tech landscape suffered setbacks, which suggests a wise leadership. It also continues to improve its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2018
$125m
SERIES C
Sep 2017
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- FSA
- Mental health resources
- Employee Resource Groups
- Stipend for growth opportunities
- Pet friendly office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Ram Palaniappan
(Founder & CEO)Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.
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