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Senior Infrastructure Engineer, SRE

Rocket Money
Location
San Francisco, CA, Washington, D.C., New York City, NY, Remote (USA)
Posted
16 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of hands-on cloud or infrastructure engineering experience
  • Substantial experience in reliability and production operations at scale
  • Experience defining SLIs and SLOs for production services
  • Hands-on experience with an observability platform in production, preferably Datadog
  • Proficiency in writing code (Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar) for tooling and automation
  • Experience with production Terraform and AWS
Nice to have
  • Experience leading a reliability or observability modernization project
  • Experience building internal tooling, libraries, or instrumentation standards
  • Experience running game days, chaos experiments, or disaster recovery exercises
  • Experience reducing observability spend while maintaining coverage
What the job really is

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, SRE at Rocket Money, you will lead the reliability and operational evolution of the platform, focusing on improving system reliability, establishing service-level indicators and objectives, and managing disaster recovery strategies. You will collaborate with product engineering teams, contribute to cloud infrastructure work, and strengthen incident management practices while ensuring the observability of services. This role is critical in supporting the company's mission to help users manage their finances effectively.

Benefits
  • Health, Dental & Vision Plans
  • Competitive Pay
  • 401k Matching
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Lunch daily (in-office only)
  • Snacks & Coffee (in-office only)
Things to weigh
  • Salary range provided is $150,000 - $185,000/year + bonus, but may vary based on experience
  • Base pay may be modified at the company's discretion
  • On-call rotation includes 1 week out of every 6 weeks
  • In-office perks are only available for in-office employees
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