Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Checkr
$161-224k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Automated background checks
Job no longer available
Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$161-224k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent education/training
- 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including 5+ years of engineering for systems reliability, scalability, and efficiency
- Strong proficiency in developing solutions in Python (preferred), GoLang, or Ruby in Linux environments
- Deep understanding of the fundamental infrastructure and platform concepts behind microservice architectures, asynchronous systems, and remote APIs
- Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
- Proficiency in developing and operating production, customer-facing environments in AWS or Azure using solutions such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
- Demonstrated ability to establish service observability standards and leverage platforms and frameworks like Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
- Proven track record of advancing incident management practices and driving continuous improvement
- Leadership skills and a passion for mentoring more junior engineers
- History of leading platform adoption across engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
- Proactive in owning and improving reliability and resiliency at scale
- Motivated by sharing knowledge and excited by what can be done when a group of people is aligned in their vision
- Passionate about customer-centricity, leading by example, and building relationships across the organization
- Unwavering in your commitment to operational security and best practices
What the job involves
- As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer within the Platform group at Checkr, you will play a crucial role in advancing the reliability of our products in our mission to create the data platform of the future
- Our SRE team focuses our engineering expertise on fostering service resiliency, scalability, and efficiency
- The person in this role will identify engineering challenges across the organization and its services, lead the development of innovative solutions to resolve them, and drive their adoption
- Collaborate and drive architectural discussions across a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives
- Lead reliability roadmap planning and cross-team project execution to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
- Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability
- Participate in a cross-organization incident response team, driving continuous improvement
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality
- Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr’s engineering teams
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $555.9m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(Co-Founder)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(Co-Founder & CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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