Site Reliability Engineer
Gen Z is the generation of the side hustle. 💪🏻 They’re creators. 👩🎤 They’re freelancers. 🧑💻 They’re investors. 👩💼 And they’re not afraid to take on challenges, especially when it comes to their finances - and we’re here for it.
Step is a next-generation financial services company building a better banking experience to help teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. We’re on a mission to improve the financial future of the next generation by empowering teens to start their financial journey today. Step is a well-funded Series C company that has raised more than $175M, focused on disrupting the banking industry through a differentiated mobile-first consumer experience.
Teens and families love our product. We eclipsed 1 million customers in just four months after launch and have now crossed 2.5 million customers in our first year on the market. If you’re looking to join a fast-growing company with a strong mission and vision that puts people first, we want to meet you!
The Role
Step is looking for its first SRE/DevOps Engineer to help us define and implement how we deploy and run our software in the cloud. You are a self-starter passionate about automation who is comfortable working cross-functionally with other teams across Step.
Responsibilities
- Work in a small, tight knit cross-functional team
- Be part of a high energy, fun, world class engineering team
- Contribute to the design, implementation and running of a high-volume, low-latency, distributed transaction processing systems
- See your contributions make a weekly impact to an evolving product
Qualifications
- 5+ years relevant work experience
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- Solid grasp of your favorite modern programming language
- Passion for uptime and automation
- Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
Core technologies we use
- Kotlin, Java
- gRPC, Protocol Buffers, jOOQ, Dagger, Swagger
- PostgreSQL
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Competitive salary based on experience, with full medical and dental benefits 💸
- High potential for growth 📈
- Stock in an early-stage startup 🤩
- Flexible WFH and vacation policy 🏝
- Employee referral program 👯♀️👯
- Monthly stipend for Step Card testing ☕️
- 401K plan 💪🏻