Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Developer Experience

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Betterment</strong></h2> <p><a href="http://www.betterment.com/">Betterment</a> is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission, <strong>to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease</strong>. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (Four days/ week in-office).</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Site Reliability Engineering’s Developer Experience (DX) squad is a key partner across the organization, dedicated to enabling smooth, efficient, and reliable workflows for engineers at every stage of the development lifecycle.</p> <p>We do this by building tools for our development teams, improving reliability and performance of our systems, and enabling monitoring and visibility into our services. This helps us move faster and smarter within a highly regulated and secure environment. We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Datadog, CircleCI, and write our code in Ruby on Rails and Go. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the DX squad, you'll help deliver new tools and systems that make engineering more impactful as well as maintain and improve current systems alongside a team of amazing engineers.</p> <p>This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees. </p> <ul> <li>New York City: $175,000 - $205,000</li> </ul> <p>We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and ADD, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.</p> <h2><strong>A day in the life</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Create semantically rich abstractions for every aspect of development</li> <li>Maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines</li> <li>Manage and optimize developer toolsets and environments</li> <li>Implement and monitor service-level objectives and indicators</li> <li>Oversee repositories for compiled code or binaries, like Artifactory or GitHub Packages</li> <li>Make substantial code contributions to our applications and systems</li> <li>Weigh in on design documents and perform code review, providing valuable and actionable feedback to peers</li> <li>Participate in on call cycles and help drive a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement</li> <li>Collaborate with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.</li> <li>Find ways to spread knowledge across the organization, leveling up engineering practices and mentoring other engineers.</li> <li>Work with people who care. We’re a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves on what we do. We’re smart, innovative, energetic, and lots of fun.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What we’re looking for</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud native solutions - we use AWS</li> <li>Extensive knowledge and experience building CI/CD pipelines with a developer first mindset</li> <li>A deep understanding of software development best practices</li> <li>Familiarity with container-based applications</li> <li>Passion for software engineering as a craft, and for creating ... (truncated, view full listing at source)