ABOUT VIRTRU:

Virtru is a leading data protection provider backed by some of the foremost venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and the Mid-Atlantic region, including Iconiq Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Capital, and Tiger Global. Today, more than ever, data demands respect, and that’s why Virtru is committed to changing the rules for data privacy. At Virtru, we equip our customers to take granular control of their data—everywhere it’s shared—through end-to-end encryption for Google, Microsoft, and other data sharing platforms. Our market-leading portfolio of data encryption and privacy enhancing applications are remarkably easy to use, fast to implement, affordable for all, and built on the Trusted Data Format (TDF) open standard.
At Virtru, our motto is “Respect the people. Respect the data.” Respecting data to us means keeping it secure and protected at all times across its entire lifecycle. We firmly believe that when you respect data, you’re demonstrating respect for the people who own that data.
Working at Virtru, you’ll be inspired by colleagues who are passionate about the work they do. We are dedicated to creating an atmosphere that sparks creativity, connection, and professional growth while empowering each other to do our best work. We’re building something special at Virtru. We hope you consider joining our team and helping us create a brighter future for data privacy.

COMPENSATION: $150,000-200,000/YEAR

Virtru, Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Remote)
Our technical teams are growing! We are seeking an Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who is dedicated to high quality production using (but not limited to) javascript, java, Python, and Go for Virtru’s digital privacy products. The ideal candidate will have a natural passion for digital privacy, software development, and great user experiences. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a stellar team of passionate Engineers who are collaborative, cohesive, and dedicated to producing high-quality results. We encourage curiosity and have a culture that encourages growth. As an Engineer on this team, you will be on the cutting edge of Zero-Trust - the future of data and service protection!
Automation, cloud native technologies, Kubernetes, and delivery orchestration… Here at Virtru you’ll join an innovative team that is establishing a cloud native data security platform. Our software is undergoing a transformation and your contributions will help us deliver Virtru products to our internal AWS and GCP infrastructure, externally to our customers through cloud marketplaces, and to the open source community with the community edition of our platform and public Helm charts.
Our cloud native stack includes CNCF technologies like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio, Kyverno, Terraform & Atlantis, Ansible, GitHub, and Datadog. We have great patterns in place and need help implementing them throughout our polyglot microservice ecosystem. We also have exciting R&D opportunities on the horizon with improvements to our service mesh, multicluster / multicloud clusters, chaos engineering, performance benchmarking, and establishing Virtru in additional public cloud marketplaces.

EXPERIENCE YOU WILL BRING:

• Experience running and managing production workloads in Kubernetes at scale.
• Comfort writing tools and automations in languages like Go, Node, or Python.
• Proficiency in shell scripting.
• Understanding of container best practices (Docker, OCI) and Kubernetes design patterns (operators, controllers, CRDs).
• Experience with Windows and Linux system administration.
• Clear and effective communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A passion for learning, teaching, and mentoring.
• A security-conscious mindset and a commitment to building secure and resilient systems.

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Establish frictionless and automated delivery systems (CI/CD pipelines) for development teams.
• Define and implement Kubernetes best practices (conventions, security policies, resource management).
• Support and optimize workloads running in Kubernetes, troubleshooting issues, identifying and implementing improvements
• Implement GitOps best practices .
• Improve and expand our self-service engineering platform.