Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Very Good Security
$165-210k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
Open for applications
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$165-210k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a well-versed, passionate Staff Engineer, who wants to play a key role in site reliability engineering and cloud operations of our global cloud infrastructure
- We’re seeking individuals with an equal flair for creative problem solving, enthusiasm for new technologies, and desire to contribute to our product
- You will likely be successful in this role if you identify with the following traits: attention to detail, problem solver, customer oriented, versatile, resilient and confident
- If all of this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you
- Proven experience in SRE or DevOps roles at a staff level, with a track record of managing production systems in complex, large-scale environments
- Strong proficiency in AWS including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, Linux Systems, microservices, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services
- Strong plus if you are a database wiz
- Expertise in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Datadog, Open Telemetry, New Relic, or similar tools to measure system health and performance
- Programming and scripting experience in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or other relevant languages used in automating infrastructure
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and load balancing in cloud-native environments
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet is a plus
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor junior team members
- Experience with incident management and disaster recovery best practices
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- Architect and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure: Design and optimize infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance across distributed systems
- Lead incident management and root cause analysis: Own incident response processes, ensure swift resolution of issues, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurrences
- Service monitoring and automation: Build and maintain automated monitoring, alerting, and healing systems that improve system health, reduce manual intervention, and minimize downtime
- Performance tuning and capacity planning: Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities and execute scaling strategies to ensure efficient handling of traffic spikes and growing workloads
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with software engineers, product teams, and DevOps to enhance system reliability and delivery pipelines
- Improve operational processes: Champion continuous improvement initiatives in deployment, scaling, and performance testing, while advocating for the adoption of SRE best practices across the organization
- Mentorship and leadership: Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, contribute to strategic decisions around infrastructure, and ensure best practices are implemented at scale
- Be proactive and innovative: we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product
- Be a part of a team that believes in the core values of transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility; in going above and beyond what is required in order to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and in having fun while doing all this!
Our take
As scaling businesses grow, data security can take a back seat. Very Good Security takes the pressure off by assuming liability for sensitive data and ensuring compliance with one simple integration. It's an enticing proposition that enables its customers to get to market faster while offloading the risks of data custodianship.
VGS’ secured vaults and zero-data approach means clients don’t have to become security geniuses themselves and instead can focus on what’s unique to their business. Competing against TokenEx, HP’s Voltage, Thales’ Vormetric, and more VGS are trying to disrupt the do-it-yourself status quo of the data security industry. VGS also expedites certifications against PCI DSS, SOC2, and GDPR requirements, and reduces the total cost of compliance by up to 70 percent.
VGS has already attracted significant investment as well as an impressive set of customers (including Brex and Deliveroo). With more companies looking for tailored solutions as they transition to the cloud, VGS is developing several new capabilities to further automate compliance controls for customers on its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
- Life & disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
- 11 US company holidays
- Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
- New hire home office set up allowance
- Professional learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Mahmoud Abdelkader
(CEO)They started their career as a CSC Consulting Software Engineer before 2 years as the ModelsHotel.com CIO and working at Wachovia and eBay. They co-founded Balanced in 2011, leaving their CTO position in 2015 to co-found Very Good Security in April 2016.
Marshall Jones
(CTO)They are a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in the fintech industry. Formerly VP of Engineering at Balanced, a payment system for marketplaces.
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