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Altruist is transforming the wealth management industry with an AI platform for financial advisors. The company is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform team during a growth phase.
In this role, you will focus on performance and resilience of robust backend systems across all product teams. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve challenging technical problems and deliver exceptional solutions. Key responsibilities include:
- Mentor and guide teams in implementing secure coding practices to ensure code is both performant and resilient against security vulnerabilities
- Implement best practice observability with Open Telemetry, logging, and standard SLOs
- Own the Incident Response process design and follow-ups
- Employ automated testing practices to ensure high-quality code
- Contribute to solutions with shared infrastructure that benefit all of Altruist
Required qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience building scalable backend services at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
- Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs
- Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- B.A./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent experience)
- Strong communication skills and ownership mindset
Bonus qualifications include AWS expertise, CI/CD pipeline experience with GitLab, familiarity with Terraform, Debezium, Temporal, and Open Telemetry, knowledge of brokerage platforms, and AI best practices.
This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles (Culver City) or San Francisco Bay Area (FiDi), with an expectation of being in the office at least three days per week.
