Site Reliability Engineer (Senior-Staff)

Carta (View all Jobs)

New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA;

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Interview Process

1. Chat with recruiter 2. Chat with one of our engineering leaders 3. Take home assignment that is not timed ( thinking about code production quality in arriving to a solution) 4. Virtual onsite (5 sessions: take home follow up discussion, architecture and design white boarding, chat with a product manager, chat about teamwork, and another meeting with hiring manager ~ about 4 hours) 5. Team matching (non-evaluative)

Salary

$178,500 - $315,000

Programming Languages Mentioned

Swift, Python


The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. 

Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, Tribe, and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. 

The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. For more information, visit carta.com.

The Team You’ll Work With

The Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE) at Carta is responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and resiliency of the Carta app and other production systems in various environments. The team has expertise in systems architecture and design, infrastructure automation using Terraform, AWS and Kubernetes. In addition, the SRE team collaborates closely with the Information Security team on defining secure network boundaries and implementing security policies.

The Problems You’ll Solve 

  • Develop and maintain Terraform configs, Jenkins pipelines, Kubernetes manifest files as infrastructure as code (IaC) and extend these configurations to support new services, features and multiple environments.
  • Solve complex dependencies of critical services of various business units and build automation to prevent future problems. Develop automation scripts to streamline system upgrades and pipelines to improve deployment cycle.
  • Maximize and maintain high availability of systems and services while ensuring critical business functions are meeting their SLOs.
  • Influence new designs and architecture, best practices and standards in supporting and improving technology platforms.
  • Establish monitoring and alerting of production systems and critical applications.
  • Participate in our on-call rotation to resolve site incidents and document your findings into repeatable runbooks as part of improving site availability.
  • Work cross functionally with a passion to improve developer productivity.

About You

You will be part of a cross functional team of engineers and product managers, and successful candidates will have extremely high EQ and IQ, with a strong bias towards collaboration. We’re optimizing for strong senior engineers with at least 4+ years of relevant experience who are excited about the opportunities to work with a fast moving team, as well as previous experience working with:

  • Hosting distributed systems on a public cloud providers (GCP or AWS)
  • Containerization technologies (specifically, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm )
  • Building and working with scalable infrastructures using Linux and Docker containers
  • Automation via “infrastructure as code” (using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.) and writing scripts in Python and Bash
  • GitHub and advanced understanding of CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, CircleCI)
  • Production systems monitoring using tools such as Datadog, Grafana etc.

You’ll build reliable infrastructure via code for the Carta app to run on Kubernetes serving sensitive financial data. You will provide performance metrics visibility into the systems and applications via Datadog monitoring. You will leverage your prior experience in designing, building and maintaining infrastructure with reliability as core principle to reduce service failures as it pertains to site performance and availability. You will lead by example to demonstrate team collaboration in timely execution of planned projects enabling swifter delivery of software. You are pragmatic in making tradeoffs between different designs to optimize overall business value and are passionate to elevate the team as part of sharing knowledge and teaching. You have a desire to understand and solve people’s problems instead of simply fulfilling the requests.

Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. If you are located in New York, New York, our expected cash compensation salary range for this role $178,500 - $315,000 (if applicable, + commission). We are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may vary from the amounts listed based on geography, experience and expertise, and other factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, connect with us via email at recruiting@carta.com. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

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