Senior Site Reliability Engineer, BrightHire
Smart interview platform
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Smart interview platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give everyone the hiring experience they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- You have real-world experience running production systems and doing SRE, Platform, or DevOps work for web applications or APIs
- You are comfortable working across Kubernetes, CI/CD, databases, and backend services, and you enjoy owning problems end to end
- You have strong experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster upgrades, workload deployments, scaling, and debugging
- You have experience with observability stacks (such as Elasticsearch and Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) and can lead efforts like upgrading Kibana to new major versions and improving logs, metrics, and dashboards
- You have worked deeply with relational databases and SQL, know how to profile slow queries, design and tune indexes, and work with engineers to adjust query patterns, timing, and frequency to improve performance
- You are comfortable in at least one backend language (i.e. Python) and can read and modify application code to support infra and performance improvements
- You have experience improving CI/CD pipelines, including build and test speed, deployment workflows, and release strategies (such as blue/green or canary)
- You have worked with infrastructure-as-code tools or similar patterns to manage environments in a repeatable way
- You think deeply about developer experience and reliability and use both metrics and empathy to guide your decisions
- You care about security, resiliency, and cost as integral aspects of the systems you build and manage
- You move fast and independently, but you know when to pull in teammates for pairing, reviews, or cross-team alignment
What the job involves
- You will own the end-to-end reliability and performance of many of our most critical systems
- Working in lockstep with Product and Engineering, you will design, build, and refine the platform that our application and AI features run on, from Kubernetes and databases through CI/CD and observability
- You will focus on keeping our systems fast, reliable, and easy for developers to work with
- You will work on real infrastructure that supports features people use every day—things like:
- Continuing to improve and iterate on our observability stack that includes Kibana, Grafana, OTel, and Elastic
- Database performance improvements by analyzing slow and high-volume queries, tuning indexes, optimizing query patterns and timing, and recommending schema and code changes to keep QPS and latency low
- Kubernetes improvements and upgrades, including deploying new services, improving resource utilization, tightening security, and standardizing deployment patterns across teams
- Improving CI/CD pipelines for both backend and frontend services so engineers can ship quickly and safely, with clear feedback loops, fast build times, and reliable rollbacks
- Enhancing the local developer experience so that running and debugging the app locally feels fast, consistent, and representative of production
- Helping improve our CI/CD and observability for our ML pipeline and models, bringing MLOps best practices into our existing infrastructure
- You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects in small, autonomous squads, with the flexibility to lead initiatives or focus as an individual contributor depending on your goals and interests
- Our developer experience is thoughtfully designed, with fast CI (< 10 minutes), 1-click deploys, strong observability, and a clean codebase that enables you to move quickly and confidently
- Our culture supports sustainable, focused work with fully remote roles, regular working hours, no-meeting Wednesdays, and flexible time off to recharge when needed
- Our team is composed of smart, collaborative, and genuinely kind people, creating an environment where you can learn, grow, and do your best work
Our take
BrightHire is an enterprise SaaS platform offering employers a Zoom-integrated hiring tool designed to assist interviewers in creating more equitable hiring practices. Its tech software records, transcribes and helps standardize interviews, along with offering broader procedural analytics tools.
The bias-reduction benefits remain to be proven and are not unique to BrightHire. However, with companies increasingly focused on publicly tackling hiring bias, it has come at the right moment. HR tech is seeing a significant uptake of SaaS products, meaning its product and the field in general are likely to see good growth.
Series B funding secured in 2021 has been channeled into workforce expansion and developing the platform using big data insights. How competitive BrightHire remain will depend on how well they fare in a rapidly innovating sector.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$20.5m
SERIES B
May 2021
$12.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $36m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity
- 401(k) plan
- Health, vision, & dental
- Flexible PTO
- Vacation bonus
- Paid parental leave
- Work setup budget
- Quarterly Offsites
- Learning stipend
- Monthly snack delivery
- Team Events
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Benjamin Sesser
(CEO & Co-Founder)Having worked at Garten Rothkopf and Gartner as a Strategy Consultant, Benjamin spent 2 years at Sailthru as Director of Strategy. In April 2019, he left his role of 4 years as VP of Finance and Operations at Enigma Technologies to co-found BrightHire.
Theodore Chestnut
(CRO & Co-Founder)Having been Vice President of Business Development at Garten Rothkopf, Thoedore later joined LinkedIn as Senior Relationship Manager. He was here for 6 years, becoming Global Account Manager and then Senior Manager of Insights.
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