Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Problems You'll Solve

• Build and scale our internal platform offerings (compute, storage and networking services) to ensure the reliability, and performance of our applications.
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
• Collaborate with application software engineers (as needed) to guide their design and ensure it scales for what Carta needs in the long run.
• Act as an agent of change and push boundaries to incrementally improve our systems as we expand globally.

The Team You'll Work With

You’ll be joining the Infrastructure Engineering team at Carta. The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for providing secure, reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure to Carta’s customers and developers.

We are Software and Infrastructure Engineers who specialize in cloud computing, networking, systems design and architecture, storage, real time data telemetry, associated automation, tooling and processes. We possess a breadth and depth of knowledge about Carta’s infrastructure and industry wide best practices, that translates into leverage for Carta’s business.

About You

• You are excited by the idea of developing scalable, reliable and efficient infrastructure that powers the entire company.
• We’re looking for strong communicators who enjoy collaborating to solve complex problems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure best practices on performance, reliability and security and their associated tools is appreciated.

Our Stack

• Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure, including services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration is preferred!
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure.
• Networking: Experience with networking concepts and tools, including Container Network Interface (CNI), Network policy implementations. Experience with proxies and service mesh is a big plus.
• Messaging: Experience with message queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Monitoring and Observability: Strong knowledge of monitoring tools and practices, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog, and the ability to set up and maintain comprehensive monitoring solutions.
• Software Development: Proficiency in Python, with the ability to write efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
• API Services: Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining API services, with a strong understanding of RESTful and/or GraphQL API design principles.
• AI Fluency: You use AI tools in your own day-to-day work in addition to enabling others. You're comfortable building agents to reduce toil and expect this to be a normal part of how you operate.

Qualifications

• Experience operating CI/CD and its associated best practices is also appreciated though not essential.

Pay

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

• $181,688 - $213,750 in Seattle, WA
• $191,250 - $225,000 in Santa Clara, CA or San Francisco, CA

Disclosures

• 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, please connect with the talent partner via email.
• Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
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