Site Reliability Engineer
Who We Are
Addepar’s mission is to bring data, technology and people together to help investors make more informed and timely investment decisions. Our wealth management platform is transforming the fintech industry by providing data aggregation, analytics and reporting for even the most complex investment portfolios. Here, your voice matters. We believe that portfolio, market and client insights can make a significant and sustainable impact, one person and one community at a time. Working at the intersection of groundbreaking technology and limitless financial services industry growth, we are optimizing how capital is put to work.
The Role
As a SRE Engineer on the Tools Team at Addepar, you will utilize your combination of significant UNIX experience, network knowledge, scripting abilities, virtualization or container experience, information security and debugging skills to design, deploy, monitor and automate all operational aspects of Addepar's platform.
You will be responsible for the design, iteration and maintenance of infrastructure-related systems and services. You should have a background in large-scale system administration and be familiar with open source technologies such as Jenkins, git, and Kafka. You will work very closely with the product and development teams. Oncall, AWS experience and scripting (Python, shell) a must
What You’ll Do
- We want engineers that can automate the deployment, administration and monitoring of our large-scale Linux, container, and cloud-service environments.
- Build from the ground up reliable infrastructure components to deliver highly scalable internal IAAS and tooling.
- Responsible for tooling the overall health and performance of our platform.
- You should know standard security practices and also be able to identify any potential application specific vulnerabilities.
- Gain deep application-level knowledge to inform infrastructure requirements and constraints, as well as contributing to applications overall design.
- Work with engineering and operations teams to enhance, document, establish processes and generally improve the operability and security of our systems.
- As a Senior Engineer, you will be expected to mentor more junior engineers as well as serve as a contributor to the engineering culture of the SRE team.
Who You Are
- 8+ years experience building and maintaining internet-facing application environments.
- Demonstrable experience with the entire life cycle of software, starting with Systems Architecture, Systems Design, and Implementation- and then maintenance and operation.
- Broad and deep experience with any applied aspect of UNIX/BSD/Linux internals. (we use Ubuntu)
- Demonstrable experience writing systems automation tooling, (open source code to discuss, good/bad/ugly, is a plus).
- Cloud environment fundamentals (we use AWS)
- Container knowledge and experience, (k8s a plus)
- Internet Networking fundamentals, IPv4, (AWS vpc a plus)
- Securable Systems and Programming practices.
- Programming/Scripting in various common languages, (we use python [boto3], shell, and general UNIX tools)
- Programming experience using and writing HTTP Service API’s and data exchange protocols (we use JSON)
- Experience using general systems orchestration and cloud automation toolkits.
- Exposure to industry practices in financial services is a plus.
- Experience with datacenter deploy/buildout and non-cloud infrastructure a plus.
- Experience with distributed data processing, databases, and large scale file systems is a plus.
About Addepar
Addepar was founded in 2009 by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, who currently serves as an active Chairman of its Board of Directors and General Partner at 8VC. Addepar works with hundreds of leading financial advisors, family offices and large financial institutions that manage data for over $3 trillion of assets on the company's platform. Addepar was named a Forbes Fintech 50 company and honored as a member of the CB Insights Fintech 250. Addepar is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in New York City, Salt Lake City and Edinburgh, Scotland.
At Addepar, we are driven by our core values:
- Take Action - We believe in empowering each other to make decisions that elevate our colleagues and our communities.
- Build Together - We celebrate success by recognizing the value of collaborating with each other, our clients and partners.
- Best Ideas Win - We welcome new ideas that inspire change.
- Demand Transparency - We encourage open discussion and information-sharing to strengthen communication across organizations.
- Solve Problems that Matter - We put our community of clients and partners first by creating technology that meets their needs today
In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.
To ensure the health and safety of all Addepeeps and our prospective candidates, we have instituted a virtual interview and onboarding experience.