Staff Site Reliability Engineer

The Role

We are looking to add a highly experienced and impactful colleague to the organization to drive the transformation of Addepar’s Production Engineering and SRE team. This role focuses on evolving our platform towards enabling highlevel declarative infrastructure orchestration and its operations. This platform closely integrates our Compute, Network, and Storage control planes, allowing us to develop highly efficient and fasttoiterateon services tailored to various product areas within the company, abstracting our developers from the nuances of underlying infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will play a staff, leading role in implementing, maintaining, and strategically evolving Addepar’s Production Infrastructure.. You will bring a robust combination of leading innovative solutions across functional teams and extensive handson development experience in AWScloud, LinuxUnix, networking, advanced scripting abilities, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Information Security, deep debugging, and comprehensive monitoringobservability skills. This includes designing, deploying, monitoring, automating, and optimizing all operational aspects of Addepars platform with a focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of container infrastructure using Kubernetes (k8s), ensuring high availability, performance, and security
• Architect, build, and maintain advanced, automated CICD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS CodeBuildPipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar, establishing best practices for deployment strategies (e.g., bluegreen, canary)
• Drive the adoption and evangelism of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, focusing on scaling the Addepar Platform across regions with a focus on cost optimization and operational efficiency
• Develop deep applicationlevel knowledge to proactively inform and influence infrastructure requirements and constraints for Developers, QA, and Management, including implementing sophisticated dashboards for Cost and Inventory management, performance analysis, and capacity planning
• Perform advanced monitoring and troubleshooting of our infrastructure and application stack using a wide array of loggingmonitoring tools, driving root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures
• Initiate and lead collaborations with crossfunctional teams to identify and resolve complex Application or infrastructure issues, serving as a technical subject matter expert
• Serve as a primary oncall responder for critical incidents, demonstrating strong problemsolving skills under pressure and contributing to postincident reviews to improve system resilience
• Highlight teamspecific activities, followed by how this role will interact with other teams and groups

• Who You Are

  • Extensive progressive experience in the SREDevOpsSystems Engineer field, with a track record of taking on increasing responsibility
  • Expertlevel understanding of Cloud Infrastructure fundamentals (AWS preferred), including advanced networking, security, and managed services
  • Exceptional ProgrammingScripting skills in various common languages (Python , Bash, and general Linux tools are essential; Java is a strong plus), with an emphasis on building scalable, maintainable automation and tools
  • Broad and deep expertise with UNIXBSDLinux internals (Ubuntu preferred), including performance tuning, kernellevel debugging, and advanced system administration
  • Extensive Containerization experience with k8s (KOPS, EKS, ECS preferred), including cluster management, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and advanced deployment strategies
  • Demonstrable experience leading initiatives with infrastructureascode tools such as Terraform in complex, multiaccount environments
  • Proficient experience with comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Sumologic, or advanced AWS cloudnative tools, with a focus on observability strategy
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with multifunctional teams, articulate complex technical concepts, and influence outcomes
  • Demonstrable experience writing and contributing to significant systems automation tooling or opensource projects is a strong plus
  • Exposure to industry practices in financial services 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.

      We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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