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Salary: USD 175,000 - 185,000 / annual
Branch is a fintech company on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible financial services.
As Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead Branch's platform reliability, performance, scalability, and observability initiatives through automation and tooling. You'll partner closely with development teams to ensure high-performing, robust services and participate in improving software development and deployment lifecycles.
Key responsibilities:
- Partner with developers to produce high-performing services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Design infrastructure, monitoring, processes, and standards for systems and applications
- Support services through design, development, load testing, and launch phases
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators including availability, latency, and system health
- Define and establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners
- Profile and optimize platform performance, resilience, and efficiency
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
- Develop preventative and automated measures to meet SLAs/SLOs/SLIs
- Manage monitoring services utilized by applications
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of site reliability engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience building and operating Java/Spring Boot services in production
- Experience with Terraform, Go, Java, Gradle, Docker, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes
Preferred qualifications:
- Python and Bash scripting experience
- Kubernetes Operators development and maintenance
- Exposure to Google Pub/Sub, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, Google Spanner, and MySQL
- JVM performance tuning and profiling
- GCP platform experience
Compensation includes base salary, stock options, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and monthly home-office stipend.
