Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Earnin

$206.6-252.6k

+ Equity

AWS
Python
.NET
Kafka
Kotlin
Spring
RDS
.NET Core
DynamoDB
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Earnin

Paycheck advance service for employees

Be an early applicant

Earnin

Paycheck advance service for employees

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BPersonal financePaymentsFinancial Services

Be an early applicant

$206.6-252.6k

+ Equity

AWS
Python
.NET
Kafka
Kotlin
Spring
RDS
.NET Core
DynamoDB
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BPersonal financePaymentsFinancial Services

Company mission

Earnin’s mission is to build a financial system that works for people.

Role

Who you are

  • Master's or bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in an SRE or Software Engineering role
  • Successfully managed production environments at scale and understand that you need more than a for-loop and ssh to make it happen
  • You know that observability is critically important to run highly available and performant services
  • Hands-on experience with shepherding services from design to production
  • You’ve tackled site-wide outages, lessons were learned, and you know how to make sure that it never happens again
  • You’re passionate about mentoring junior engineers and you believe in the investment of people

What the job involves

  • As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the subject matter expert with operating systems and networking
  • You’ll understand how our services are performing, we use DataDog (Logging+Metrics+APM), and Cloudwatch (by way of Datadog) to alert with Slack or PagerDuty
  • We are strong believers in Infrastructure as Code
  • There are many ways to accomplish this, but we use Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes to make it happen
  • You have a software background and are passionate about optimizing the quality of service and developer experience
  • You’re excited to work with both technical and non-technical teams throughout our organization
  • You have proven experience working with large-scale, secure, and performant distributed systems
  • You enjoy sharing information to reduce silos and break down barriers between teams
  • You’re passionate about learning new technologies and adopting the right tools to manage these services in production -- keeping SLAs and MTTR in mind at all times
  • You can plan, lead, and execute strategic objectives for the team or all of engineering
  • You’re familiar with all of the PagerDuty ringtones available

Our take

Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their pay checks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.

Unlike competitors in this growing space such as Dave, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of over 300,000 business customers which offer Earnin as an employee benefit. Around 70 million paycheck advances were taken through the platform in 2022 alone, totalling $5 billion. Since then, this number has grown to an overall earnings access value of $15 billion.

Earnin is growing despite current difficulties in the wider tech landscape and is continuing to hire in all departments. It will continue to improve upon its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.

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42% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Dec 2018

$125m

SERIES C

Sep 2017

$39m

SERIES B

Total funding: $190.1m

Company benefits

  • 401k
  • FSA
  • Mental health resources
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Stipend for growth opportunities
  • Pet friendly office
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Ownership
  • Speed
  • Impact
  • Outstanding people
  • Curious truth-seeking
  • Multi-level thinking

Company HQ

Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.

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