Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Beam
$135-160k
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Financial planning app
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Financial planning app
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$135-160k
+ Equity shares
21-100 employees
Company mission
To grow and redefine the next generation of the social safety net.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires experience with modern software development best practices and building solutions with cloud-based (GCP) technologies for web applications
- The ideal candidate for this role will have hands-on experience solving operational problems with a software developer’s mindset, removing friction through automation, and promoting observability and metrics as the foundation for efficiently scaling applications
- Additionally, an ideal candidate will be excited about advocating for modern DevSecOps practices and building secure and compliant systems
- Cloud Experience | Minimum four (4) years of GCP experience, including experience with IAM, Cloud Run or GKE, AlloyDB or Cloud SQL, Monitoring and Logging, and VPCs/networking. Experience implementing IaC using Terraform or similar technologies
- Monitoring | Knowledge of the Grafana ecosystem or similar, building dashboards, alert rules, PromQL, incident management, SLOs, as well as frontend observability
- Software Background | Past experience building and deploying full-stack web applications to cloud environments. Strong background in object-oriented design fundamentals and experience with RESTful web services and microservices-based architectures. Fluency in at least one programming language (Typescript/JavaScript/Node.js, GoLang, or Python preferred)
- Security | Experience scanning applications and reviewing code for vulnerabilities, identifying security threats in infrastructure and systems, and remediating issues based on priority and SLAs
- Continuous Integration and Delivery | Able to design and build CI/CD pipelines using any tool (currently using GitHub). Knowledge of various deployment methodologies such as Blue/Green deployments. Familiarity with decoupling deployments from release using traffic splitting, feature toggles, and dark launches
- Containerization | Experience building docker images and running and troubleshooting docker containers. An understanding of k8s infrastructure
- Networking | Fluent in networking fundamentals, such as DNS, DHCP, TCP, UDP, NAT, VPN, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies, and an understanding of the OSI model
- Commitment | A commitment to and passion for Beam’s mission, vision, and values
What the job involves
- The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) plays a crucial role in maintaining Beam's cloud infrastructure and tooling, implementing our DevOps strategy, and managing the monitoring and observability stack that enables our platform to scale reliably
- As a cross-functional agile team member, this role will provide cloud architecture expertise, leadership, and advocacy for modern SRE practices and shift left security
- The Senior SRE will have a significant impact on Beam’s mission by helping Product and Engineering move fast, identifying risks and inefficiencies and reducing the impact of failures
- We containerize and deploy with Cloud Run on GCP, manage our infrastructure with Terraform, and use Grafana for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and on-call
- Own Telemetry and Monitoring | As the Senior SRE, you’ll own our telemetry stack (Grafana and OTEL mostly) and promote observability through all levels of our platform, participate in incident reviews, identify SLOs to improve engineering outcomes, and work with developers to solve problems with metrics
- Prioritize Security | Lead security reviews of code and systems and assist with hardening our platform against security and compliance risks. Help build a shift left, security-first mindset in our development processes
- Manage our Google-based Infrastructure | You’ll help manage our GCP infrastructure and work closely with Beam engineers and our Google colleagues to implement cost-effective cloud-based solutions
- Embrace Automation and Reduce Friction | Identify points of toil, failure, and degraded performance. Design, test, and implement solutions to increase operational and engineering efficiency, whether in application code, infrastructure, or CI/CD processes
- Promote a collaborative DevOps culture | Manage our DevOps processes and tooling that empower software developers to deploy and own their code all the way to production with minimal friction, collaborate as a cross-functional agile software development team member, participate in code reviews, and practice blameless failure analysis
- Show the way | Evangelize and keep up with modern cloud services and facilitate the improvement of product stability, performance and security by implementing and training others on SRE best practices
Our take
Beam (formerly Edquity) was founded in 2016 to address the fact that many students in America are unaware of the safety nets and funds available for those struggling during their educational years. However, after seeing governments and some nonprofits struggle to disperse critical benefits to people, it has expanded its platform to help even more individuals.
The company’s platform streamlines often arduous and complicated processes, simplifying applications, aid decisions and processing, payments, compliance, and more. This enables governments, nonprofits, colleges/universities, and philanthropic organizations to administer a wide range of financial assistance programs (from rental relief to public utility benefits to emergency cash assistance) through one single management system.
Beam also provides the infrastructure for 53 governments, institutions, and non-profits in more than 16 states. With over $180 million administered to 300,000+ households since 2020, Beam has vast growth opportunities and it continues to scale and expand its offerings, as it has successfully been doing over the last few years.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2022
$6.4m
SERIES A
Jun 2022
$8.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $22.7m
Company benefits
- Fully paid health insurance (Medical/Vision/Dental)
- Unlimited PTO, Sick and Mental Health Benefits
- 11 paid company holidays
- 401k with a 4% match
- Generous parental leave
- Annual Professional Development Stipend
- One time Home Office Setup Stipend
- Equity in Edquity
- Many more!
Company values
- Lead with empathy
- Intention matters, impact matters more
- Solution for a better future
- Practice stewardship
- Advocate with expertise
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
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Leadership
David Helene
(CEO)Vice President & Chief of Staff at The Clearing House, Co-Founder & CEO at UniFi scholars.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
- An anti-racist company. Edquity ensure that products and every behavior they engage in are targeting racism, and fight against racism when they see it
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