Senior Software Engineer, Checkr
Reliability
$157-218k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Automated background checks
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Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157-218k
+ Equity
More information about location
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 practical experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on reliability, scalability, and efficiency of distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in developing solutions Python (preferred), Go, or Ruby in Linux environments, with deep understanding of microservices, asynchronous systems, and remote APIs
- Experience developing and operating production systems in AWS or Azure using Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
- Expertise in observability and operational excellence, including monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and improving incident management processes
- Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, including mentoring engineers and driving platform adoption through a self-service, product-focused approach
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Site Reliability Engineering team within the Platform Engineering group at Checkr, you will identify issues and technical challenges, develop innovative solutions to resolve them, and drive their adoption
- You will strive towards the right balance between enforcing standardization and accommodating tailored workflows
- The person in this role will have the opportunity to demonstrate a degree of autonomy in their work and help with complex support requests, while having an impact across engineering
- Collaborate and drive architectural discussions within the SRE team and with cross-functional teams
- Lead projects and contribute to the SRE team’s technical roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
- Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr’s engineering teams
- Participate in a cross-organization incident response team, driving continuous improvement
- Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality
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: $554.1m
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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