Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Wealthsimple
Infrastructure
Professional investing services made simple
Job no longer available
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Ruby / SQL / AWS / Kubernetes
- Proven experience building and operating highly reliable and scalable services, with a strong focus on system stability
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work as part of the Clients & Accounts Domain, acting as a liaison with the Infrastructure and Platform team
- The Clients & Accounts domain at Wealthsimple oversees the broad and important mandate of growing our client base while ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our core systems
- We acquire and guide clients through their onboarding journey so that they can seamlessly open and fund their accounts — most often we do this with no human intervention and in hours not days
- The role is critical for leveraging Infraplat's tools to ensure 100% uptime, reliability, and scalability for our critical-tier systems
- Key responsibilities include identifying and addressing infrastructure gaps, advocating for team needs to Infraplat, and making the system robust to prevent production issues
- Ultimately, this SRE will boost developer productivity by facilitating quick, confident code shipping and enhancing system observability and health
- Within 1 month, you'll
- Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current reliability goals for the future that you will start to shape
- Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company
- Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers
- Have an assigned buddy within your team that will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture, monitoring systems, and current reliability projects
- Within 3 months, you'll
- Learn Wealthsimple’s technical stack and apply our development patterns and best practices through your work, with an emphasis on production-readiness
- Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced
- Contribute to and support our core infrastructure and automation tools and share your work with the team
- Learn how to query our data to measure the impact of your reliability improvements
- Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first automation or infrastructure project in a secure, and scalable way.
- Within 6 months you'll
- Reliably ship new features or system improvements to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests, and enhancing production monitoring
- Contribute to or lead the technical design of a reliability project, while understanding how it will shape our future architecture and operational posture
- Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews, focusing on code quality and operational excellence
- Develop a big picture perspective and understand how our tools and frameworks come together
- You’ll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases
- Within 12 months, you'll
- Lead your first large-scale reliability project: planning, scoping, and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timelines
- Have provided leverage to our engineering teams by shipping new best practices and tools for all to benefit from, significantly improving development velocity and system stability
- Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering team
- Have worked closely with our product and design teams, contributing your own feedback and opinions on design and UX from a reliability and performance perspective
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratize investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment removing the need for human advisors.
But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.
Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$400.8m
LATE VC
May 2021
$546.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
- Company equity for full-time employees
- Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
- Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
- 20 vacation days per year
- 90 Days Away program
- Top-tier health benefits
- Life & disability insurance
- Generous sick and mental health days
- Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
- Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
- Gender Affirmation benefits
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
- Employee resource groups
- Social impact hours
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Katchen
(CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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