Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Happy Money is a financial technology company on a mission to develop and deliver affordable, accessible financial tools and services that empower people to use money as a tool for their happiness. Members benefit from loans funded by a national network of customer-focused lending partners and designed to help them accomplish their goals.

Backed by leading investors, Happy Money has helped nearly 205,000 members since inception – working with lending partners to fund over $3.7 billion in loans*. Founded in 2009, Happy Money has a passionate and purpose-driven employee base of approximately 400 people across the United States. For more information, please visit happymoney.com.

ABOUT THE TEAM

• You will be part of an overall organization composed of various engineers and specialists that focus in infrastructure, operations, development, observability, and security.
• Along with a few other specialist people, the Platform Engineering/SRE is instrumental in the future public API-driven services which define Happy Money’s road forward

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Be a foundational member of our Platform Engineerings’ or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice
• With senior Engineering leadership and in consultation with functional areas (Systems Engineering/Operations, Development, QA, Program Management, Data Engineering, etc), scope, create, deploy, and manage platforms to measure and increase site availability and responsiveness
• Will bring significant experience to bear in assessing and remediating site reliability issues
• Believes in robust automation everywhere (of course)
• Exhibits extreme ownership mentality
• Can anticipate future infrastructure/platform/applications needs at scale, and can offer and implement practical solutions
• Be on-call
• Work Pacific time hours
• Will successfully mentor others in SRE fundamentals

ABOUT YOU

• Have excellent verbal and written communications skills
• 5+ years experience as an SRE, full-stack developer, systems engineer, DevOps, or other such contributor
• 3+ years experience with AWS services
• Strong facility with either Java or Python is required; strong ability with both is highly desired
• Adequate capability in Javascript, Ruby, and/or other scripting is a plus
• Experience with monitoring/analysis tools such as Datadog, Sumo Logic and PagerDuty
• 5+ years with modern, agile SDLC practices, orchestration tooling, and CI/CD platforms (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation, CodeDeploy, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc)
• Experience working closely with Security teams to drive compliance with SOC2, PCI, or similar certifications

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Ability to make nuanced threat assessments
• Experience with financial systems or loan origination systems

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Competitive salary and equity in a high growth start-up
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance options covered at 100% for you & family
• 401k Plan with a matching contribution
• Generous PTO
• Monthly Health and Wellness Days
• 12 Weeks Paid Family Leave
• Company-paid short & long term disability and life insurance
• Happy Home Allowance to contribute to your home office workspace
• Happy Money is a 100% fully distributed workforce