Site Reliability Engineer

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company dedicated to financially empowering the next generation. With only one in three millennials owning a credit card and the majority lacking their desired credit scores, Sezzle addresses these challenges through a payment platform that offers interest-free installment plans at online stores. By increasing consumers' purchasing power, Sezzle drives sales and basket sizes for thousands of eCommerce merchants that it partners with.

About the Role: 

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work on our Infrastructure team, who will assist us in running and scaling our cloud infrastructure. Your duties will blend software development and operations in order to continuously automate our environments.  We are seeking a talented and motivated Site Reliability Engineer who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

What You'll Do:

• Be on a Pagerduty on-call rotation to respond to production incidents
• Maintain and develop monitoring and alerting solutions to improve the on-call experience
• Design, build and maintain scalable infrastructure for running our systems
• Assist product developers in debugging and triaging production issues

What We Look For:

• Bachelor's in computer science (preferred) or equivalent related experience 

Ideal Skills & Experience: 

• Basic knowledge of a Microservice Architecture
• Basic knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker 
• Familiarity with deployment/provisioning tools like Terraform, Helm, Ansible
• Knowledge in linux platform
• Comfortable working with Golang, Python and shell script
• Knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Close familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, and release processes

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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