Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Alloy
$194-228k
+ Equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs)
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Identity verification for financial institutions.
Open for applications
Identity verification for financial institutions.
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$194-228k
+ Equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs)
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
We’re your unified platform for fraud management, identity decisions, and regulatory compliance.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience working on a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure team
- 5-8 years of technical experience, bonus points for software engineering experience
- Experience writing Infrastructure as Code
- Experience running and troubleshooting applications in Docker
- Solid experience with CI/CD with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Travis, etc
- Experience configuring and using tools like Datadog, Cloudwatch, ELK/EFK, etc for troubleshooting
- Experience being in an on-call rotation
- Practical experience scripting (bash, python, etc)
- Programming experience with one or more of python, javascript, golang, etc
- You’ve provisioned production resources in AWS, GCP, or Azure using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools
- Enthusiasm for a hybrid schedule, as we're in person on Tuesdays & Thursdays
What the job involves
- Our services are used by leading fintechs and top tier banks. Our clients rely on Alloy’s uptime to serve their clients
- Reporting into the Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, you'll help architect and build infrastructure solutions to improve our uptime and exceed our SLOs. We are looking for someone who has:
- Provisioned and managed a variety of AWS resources, using Terraform
- Implemented solutions for deploying applications to Kubernetes in production
- Helped architect and build secure and reliable systems and deployment pipelines
- Comfort writing and reviewing code
- Pragmatic thinking; you can justify when to build and when to buy. You recognize that what we’re creating is part of something bigger, and always try to eliminate constraints and keep releases flowing
- Implemented and used tools like Datadog, Splunk, or Newrelic to find where the latency in distributed systems is coming from, then proposed and implemented solutions to reduce that latency
- Participated in on-call rotations, but you spend your day building systems that are resilient and self-healing, so alerts don’t happen
- Our infrastructure is represented in Terraform. You’ll be working with the team to make improvements to our IAC, as well as provision new infrastructure in support of our broader engineering goals. You will have access to the
- We use a collection of AWS Tools, Github Actions, third-party solutions, and custom scripts to automate releases, deployments, scaling events, and other actions. You’ll help improve existing automated processes as well as create new ones to improve resiliency, performance, and predictability
- Our shared goal of shipping quality code means you’ll be looking for and eliminating constraints in the deployment pipeline, helping to maintain dev-prod parity, and looking for ways to ensure applications get to production quickly, predictably, and drama-free
- You’ll be continuously looking for the opportunities to improve uptime, autoscaling and autorecovery, while reducing RTO and RPO of our products. Suggesting and implementing new cloud services and taking advantage of the latest AWS releases
- Offering cost optimizations, improving our logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
- You’ll also participate in our on-call rotation. Fortunately, because of our focus on continuous improvement, resiliency, and automation, incidents are rare, recoverable, and quickly followed up by blameless postmortems
Our take
In recent years, there has been an enormous shift towards online banking, a trend that’s unlikely to turn around with surveys showing that more than half of US banking customers don’t intend to return to branches in person. The rise in digital onboarding has aroused concern about both the speed and labour of ID verification, as well as fraud potential. Alloy was built to help connect banks and fintech companies to more sources of KYC, AML and other compliance data.
The company's single API identity verification platform allows financial institutions to secure against the risk of fraud and misjudged risk decisions when onboarding new customers online. Alloy also helps to improve customer conversion through the compliance funnel and speed up previously manual back-office processes.
The company serves the burgeoning fintech market, a lucrative market with a 25% annual growth rate and already has notable clients in the form of Radius Bank and Aspiration. Alloy's main competition in the future will likely come from financial institutions themselves, who will have to decide on buying the company's solution or building their own in-house. Regardless, Alloy's global expansion efforts have created substantial growth opportunity.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2022
$52m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $207.8m
Company benefits
- 16 weeks of parental leave
- Premium medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA programs
- 401k with matching and immediate vesting & eligibility
- Commuter, health & wellness benefits
- $1,000 annual Learning and Development stipend
- Memorable team events and retreats
- Work from home opportunities
- Unlimited PTO
Company values
- Be Bold - Big challenges are what get us out of bed in the morning. We move mountains to innovate and solve problems with relentless energy and drive.
- Collaborate - Teamwork is paramount. We value it for the benefit of our peers and for the company as a whole.
- Get Scrappy - Creative thinking and determination will outmatch unlimited resources. It doesn’t matter what’s in the way—we’re ready to tackle tasks head on.
- Celebrate Differences - We leverage our individuality to enhance our ability as a team. An environment where everyone can do their best work and be their best selves results in smarter decisions and better performance.
Company HQ
Greenwich Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Tommy Nicholas
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder of The City Swig. Software Developer of SHOCKOE.COM. Owner of Web/Mobile Freelancing. Most recently was Head of Product at Knox Payments.
Laura Spiekerman
(Co-Founder)Studied Political Science at Columbia. Early career as a Paralegal at Clayman & Rosenberg. Went on to become Director of Marketing at Kopo Kopo. Research/Investments Analyst at Imprint Capital Advisors. Became Head of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Knox Payments.
Charles Hearn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Studied Computer Science at University of Virginia. Independent Researcher at UVA Researcher for over a year. Mobile Lead & General Developer at The City Swig. Became Program Manager at Microsoft. Recently Lead Project Engineer at Knox Payments.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Alloy
Faria Chaudhry (Senior Technical Recruiter)
- We want to create an inclusive workplace and build a team in which people from all backgrounds can bring their whole or best selves to work, share their voice, find a sense of belonging, and have equitable opportunities to thrive at Alloy.
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