Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Betterment
$210-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Banking and investment app
Open for applications
Banking and investment app
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$210-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make people’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in software development toolchains and environments, CI/CD pipelines, SLIs/SLOs, and Observability
- A depth of experience building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud native solutions that enable development teams to operate independently - we use AWS
- Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and configuration management
- Experience with container-based applications
- A demonstrated understanding of software development best practices
- Passion for software engineering as a craft, and for creating what doesn’t yet exist
- Ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
- Appreciation for agility and pragmatism in software development
- A bias for action and proactive problem-solving
What the job involves
- Site Reliability is a trusted partner throughout the organization, constantly working to keep everything running smoothly
- We do this by building tools for our development teams, improving reliability and performance of our systems, and enabling monitoring and visibility into our services
- This helps us move faster and smarter within a highly regulated and secure environment
- We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Terraform, Datadog, CircleCI, and write our code in Ruby on Rails, Go, and Bash, just to name a few
- As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer you'll help deliver new tools and systems that make engineering more impactful as well as maintain and improve current systems alongside a team of amazing engineers
- Improve our software delivery pipeline in a way that makes it expedient and encourages a culture of high code quality
- Work with business units to scale and design systems that are highly available and resilient
- Make substantial code contributions to our applications and configuration management software
- Weigh in on design documents and perform code reviews, providing valuable and actionable feedback to peers throughout engineering
- Participate in on call cycles
- Collaborate, with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better
- Teach and Learn. As a Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with new, junior, and senior engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents
Application process
- In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators
- Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment
- Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions
- On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency
- As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision
- Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process
Our take
Betterment is an app-based investment platform that provides personal finance data and guidance to retail users through a range of real-world data and AI analytics to deliver investment advice to customers.
The company has become the largest independent digital investment advisor in the U.S. Having expanded its 401k business, Betterment has entered the world of Crypto, partnering with Gemini to offer customized crypto portfolios and its "Crypto Investing by Betterment" platform.
Betterment has a wealth of competition in this increasingly crowded space. Other robo advisors offering similar services include Moneyfarm, Wealth Simple, M1 Finance and Personal Capital. Going forward, Betterment hopes to further distance itself from rivals as it further innovates its platform.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$60m
SERIES F
Jul 2017
$70m
SERIES E
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Get comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, plus a free subscription to One Medical.©
- Generous time off: We encourage you to take time off (seriously) and get the rest you need to do your best work.
- Paid parental leave: We welcome new additions to your family with 12-18 weeks of parental leave.
- Matching benefits: We offer a 401(k) match and a match on qualified student loan payments
- Equity: Gain stake in Betterment’s success with company equity grants.
- Free food: Snacks, beverages, and catered lunches at our NYC HQ
- Long-term health resources: We provide LGBTQIA+ transition and fertility support.
- Find your community: Make connections through seven employee affinity groups and a social calendar of hybrid events.
Company values
- Pursue happiness
- Start with the customer
- Build relationships beyond the task
- Own it and lead it
- Iterate to breakthrough
- Embrace efficiency
- Create enduring quality
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jonathan Stein
(Board Member)After studying Economics at Harvard, Jonathan worked as a Consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group for over 4 years. He founded Betterment in 2007, serving as CEO until 2020 when he stepped down to Chairman of the Board.
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