Senior Software Site Reliability Engineer

at  Credit Karma

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 130 million members globally. While we’re best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* - all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London and New York City.

• Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

The Platform Engineering team is responsible for enabling the organization by developing tooling and architectural patterns to leverage the public cloud in a reliable and scalable manner. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for the team as well as the organization and help evolve our technology through automation and reliable architecture as well help increase velocity by adoption of such implementations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
• Eagerness to challenge the status quo, balanced with a reasonable and methodical approach to effecting change
• Self-starting attitude and fearless ascent up the learning curve. Thrives in a distributed workplace environment
• Familiarity with information security principles and best practices in virtual environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD lifecycle
• Exposure to GCP and related components like GCE, GKE, IAM is a huge plus
• Familiarity with micro-segmentation and cloud workload protection platforms

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Driving solutions and implementing systems that propel the organization as we leverage the capability of the Cloud to provide a seamless Platform.
• Compute Platform architecture and development (IaaS, PaaS)
• Core infrastructure tools and frameworks (Configuration Management, IAM, WAF, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, HA, kubernetes, Helm, FLux, Service Mesh, etc.)
• Provide expertise in the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
• Collaborate across Engineering and Product teams to translate application requirements to infrastructure capabilities
• Maintaining an automation centric vision and incorporating SRE methodologies in an effort to increase reliability and decreasing toil
• Involvement in technical design and architecture discussions and decisions as well as contributing to technical troubleshooting in various part of the stack
• Be a Platform Infrastructure full-stack developer

WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THE ROLE:

• You will have the opportunity to contribute greatly to an extremely engineering-focused organization.
• Your contributions will have a noticeable impact on our members as well as your fellow Karmanauts (that’s what we call ourselves).
• You will be involved in organizational efforts of continuous improvement to increase and ensure the reliability of Credit Karma.