Sr. Systems Engineer - IP Tools
Who We Are
Addepar’s purpose is to maximize the positive impact of the world’s capital. More than 700 of the world’s leading financial services firms trust Addepar to unlock the power and possibility of informed, data driven investing and advice. These family offices, wealth managers, banks and institutions use Addepar’s purpose-built SaaS platform and associated Marketplace to deliver exceptional value to their clients in a modern, scalable and secure way.
Our clients use Addepar to manage and advise on more than $3.5 trillion in assets, and we’ve been adding more than $15 billion per week for many consecutive quarters, making us one of the fastest growing companies in fintech. Our board and investors are some of the best in the business: D1 Capital, WestCap, 8VC and Valor Equity Partners have led our last few rounds.
We’re now expanding Addepar’s business around the globe, with clients in more than 25 countries. We’re constantly doubling down on tech- and data-fueled innovation, and our product and platform roadmap is more ambitious today than ever. We place our clients at the center of everything we do, and see a virtually unlimited set of opportunities to expand our client footprint and deepen the value we can unlock by building together.
Addepar is a Forbes Fintech 50 company and an honored member of the CB Insights Fintech 250. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City and Edinburgh, Scotland.
*Marketplace and brokerage services provided by Acervus Securities, Inc., an SEC registered broker‑dealer and member FINRA / SIPC.
The Role
As a SRE Engineer on the Tools Team at Addepar, you will use 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 improve, document, and establish processes and broadly 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 is a plus, (if you have open source code to show we're happy to discuss, good/bad/ugly).
- 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 is a plus
- Experience with distributed data processing, databases, and large scale file systems is a plus
Our Values
- Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
- Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
- Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
- Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
- Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.
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.
Unfortunately, at this time we cannot accept Colorado applicants.