Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ClearScore
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2+ days a week in office
Financial wellbeing marketplace
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Financial wellbeing marketplace
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
ClearScore's vision is to help everyone, no matter what their circumstances, achieve greater financial wellbeing. They've started this journey by giving everybody access to their credit score and report for free, forever.
Role
Who you are
- Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge, including experience with cluster upgrades, networking (CNI), container runtimes and troubleshooting node-level issues
- Strong AWS expertise, including architecture, networking and cost management, with an awareness of industry standards and the ability to influence adoption across teams
- Deep understanding of Linux internals, containerisation and operating system-level performance tuning
- Proficiency in at least one compiled language (for example Go, Rust or C++) and one interpreted language (for example Python or Bash)
- Proven ability to automate infrastructure, deployments and monitoring with strong scripting skills across multiple languages
- Experience designing, deploying and operating distributed systems with complex failure modes
- Strong networking fundamentals, capable of debugging complex routing or firewall issues and designing resilient architectures
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Jenkins, ArgoCD or Spinnaker, including building and managing large-scale migrations
- Deep observability expertise, from instrumenting applications and building dashboards to managing large monitoring stack upgrades and integrations
What the job involves
- Drive architectural change by participating in RFCs, architecture forums and platform-wide initiatives to improve reliability, scalability and efficiency
- Lead and evolve ClearScore’s Kubernetes platform, designing, upgrading and optimising clusters at scale while shaping how we use Kubernetes across the company
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues independently, using a deep understanding of distributed systems and containerisation to mitigate and prevent incidents
- Design and contribute to Kubernetes controllers and automation tools to improve our infrastructure and developer experience
- Enhance our AWS estate, ensuring cost efficiency, security and scalability while promoting best practices across teams
- Collaborate with developers to improve service observability, implement metrics and alerting strategies, and build meaningful dashboards for complex systems
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines from scratch for new use cases, manage migrations, and introduce new tooling where beneficial
- Contribute to open source projects through fixes, feedback or new tools aligned with our mission
- Mentor and guide mid-level SREs and other engineers, helping them develop deep technical expertise and operational excellence
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The number of loan options for consumers has exploded in recent years, making credit assessment super important for companies offering these loans and giving ClearScore a big market to grow into.
Traditionally, lenders had a more 'computer says no' approach when it came to making loan decisions. With the wealth of data now available on people, credit assessment can be made smarter. ClearScore's approach has been to add on innovative products outside of credit scoring, e.g. helping consumers understand how to improve their financial position and offering car and home insurance.
In 2025, the company secured impressive funding from HSBC to fuel its product line and customer service channel growth. It has also successfully acquired a number of smaller fintechs, such as Money Dashboard in 2022 and Aro Finance in January 2025, further aiding ClearScore in its growth mission and product expansion.
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Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"We have a really clear mission and with that, it means everything you work on is to improve for our users and make the world of personal finance..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2024
$4.5m
GRANT
Jun 2021
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $220.1m
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Flexible, generous and personalised maternity and paternity plans
- Company personal trainer, boxing and yoga classes
- Very flexible work hours and the ability to work from home
- In house psychotherapist, coach and financial coach
- Dog friendly office
- Pay transparency for every level across the business
- Hatch - Financial Planning support
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We deliver
- We lead
- We fight
- We are disciplined
- We are proud
- We obsess
- We fail and fix fast
- We are focused
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
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Leadership
Justin
(Co-Founder & Group CEO)CMO at Zapp, Vice President of Marketing at Capital One and Global Head of Marketing at Deutsche Bank. Founded ALLOW in 2010, helping people get in control of their personal information.
Dan
(Co-Founder)Currently Managing Partner at Blenheim Chalcot, the venture builder where ClearScore was started
Nigel
(Chairman)Currently Managing Partner of QED Investors. Co-founder of Capital One
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at ClearScore
- Active Employee Representative Group discussing D&I initiatives with every team
- Mental Health support and Mental Health days available
- Mandatory Unconscious Bias training for every interviewer
- Clear goals to decrease Pay Gap communicated openly in company meetings
- Regularly check-in via anonymous feedback to ensure high Diversity & Inclusion scores in our employee experience
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