Checkr
Senior DevOps Engineer
Checkr, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About CheckrCheckr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on
Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List
and is a Y Combinator 2024
Breakthrough Company .
As a
Senior DevOps Engineer,
you will work closely with our foundation teams to build and run the core components that power Checkr. You will enable all teams to take collective ownership of their software's reliability, scalability, and performance. You will also guide other teams in fine-tuning their services, resulting in improved robustness and efficiency, ensuring that every team can focus on building superior software, backed by a reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. We believe every engineering team at Checkr should be responsible for the software they build, and DevOps plays a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to make that happen.
What a typical week may look like at Checkr:
Building, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling Checkr’s cloud and on-prem infrastructure
Improving infrastructure operations and processes with automation and tooling
Optimizing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
Debugging production issues across services and levels of the stack
Ensuring the scalability and security of Checkr infrastructure
Partnering with application developers to ensure best practices and efficient use of infrastructure
Building and fostering collaborative relationships with other engineering teams and leaders
Planning for the growth of Checkr’s infrastructure
What you’ll bring:
5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or related experience
Experience designing technical architecture and creating a strategic roadmap to realize a technical vision
Expertise with Linux, VMware, Terraform, and AWS or Azure
Experience with containers and container orchestration
Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, web application security, and HTTP/HTTPS
Experience migrating from on-prem to cloud. Your rollback plans are just as meticulous as your rollout plans
Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
An ability, willingness, and desire to mentor and up-level less experienced Infrastructure Engineers
A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
What you get:
A fast-paced and collaborative environment
Learning and development allowance
Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
Flexible PTO policy
Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see
our website
.
The
base salary
range for this role is $157,877 to $185,738 in San Francisco, CA.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.
Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the
San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance
.
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A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on
Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List
and is a Y Combinator 2024
Breakthrough Company .
As a
Senior DevOps Engineer,
you will work closely with our foundation teams to build and run the core components that power Checkr. You will enable all teams to take collective ownership of their software's reliability, scalability, and performance. You will also guide other teams in fine-tuning their services, resulting in improved robustness and efficiency, ensuring that every team can focus on building superior software, backed by a reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. We believe every engineering team at Checkr should be responsible for the software they build, and DevOps plays a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to make that happen.
What a typical week may look like at Checkr:
Building, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling Checkr’s cloud and on-prem infrastructure
Improving infrastructure operations and processes with automation and tooling
Optimizing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
Debugging production issues across services and levels of the stack
Ensuring the scalability and security of Checkr infrastructure
Partnering with application developers to ensure best practices and efficient use of infrastructure
Building and fostering collaborative relationships with other engineering teams and leaders
Planning for the growth of Checkr’s infrastructure
What you’ll bring:
5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or related experience
Experience designing technical architecture and creating a strategic roadmap to realize a technical vision
Expertise with Linux, VMware, Terraform, and AWS or Azure
Experience with containers and container orchestration
Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, web application security, and HTTP/HTTPS
Experience migrating from on-prem to cloud. Your rollback plans are just as meticulous as your rollout plans
Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
An ability, willingness, and desire to mentor and up-level less experienced Infrastructure Engineers
A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
What you get:
A fast-paced and collaborative environment
Learning and development allowance
Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
Flexible PTO policy
Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see
our website
.
The
base salary
range for this role is $157,877 to $185,738 in San Francisco, CA.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.
Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the
San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance
.
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