Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Checkr

Checkr

Location:
United States, Denver ▼
San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

138000.00 - 191000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Platform team, you will identify issues and technical challenges across the engineering teams and platforms, 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.

Job Responsibility:

Collaborate, drive, and execute architectural discussions with cross-functional teams
Lead cross-team projects and SREs' 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
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
Present detailed technical information and benefits of the Checkr platform to a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives

Requirements:

Degree in Computer Science (or related field)
6+ years of experience in building tools with Python (preferred), GoLang, or Ruby
6+ years of experience in maintaining and observing production customer-facing environments in AWS or Azure
6+ years of experience as a member of an incident response team
Deep understanding of the fundamental infrastructure and platform concepts behind a micro-service architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous queueing models
Experience with observability platforms and frameworks like Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform
Experience driving platform adoption across engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices

What we offer:

A fast-paced and collaborative environment
Learning and development allowance
Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunities for advancement
100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
Flexible PTO policy
Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
In-office perks such as lunch four times a week, commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
September 26, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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