Site Reliability Engineer

About the position

Curve was founded with a rebellious spirit, and a lofty vision; to truly simplify your finances, so you can focus on what matters most in life. That's why Curve puts your finances simply at your fingertips, so you can make smart choices on how to spend, send, see and save your money. We help you control your financial life, so you can go out and live the life you want to live. With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track spend behaviour and provide insights, and security to protect you from fraud. For the first time giving you bright insights and control of all your money in one beautiful place. We're developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the core. Our user base is growing rapidly and we have exceptional metrics. We have funding from the leading names in tech investment, and a visionary leadership team who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the autonomy to masterfully develop their expertise. Welcome to Curve. On a mission to help you live inspired.

Responsibilities

• Working with Curve's engineering teams to support the infrastructure they need and the platforms on which their services run
• Observing our platforms and services to measure reliability, find areas for improvement, and discover any risks to the stability or security of our systems
• Maintaining new and existing infrastructure with code, by writing well-designed Terraform modules, to make the best use of our cloud providers
• Doing proof-of-concepts on new and emerging tech to see how it could fit at Curve
• Taking part in honest and transparent blame-free post-mortems on incidents we have, so we can learn from them and prevent them from happening again
• Sharing your work and talking about it within the Platform and Engineering team, to spread knowledge and be an ambassador for good site reliability practices
• Deploying innovative new tools to help accelerate engineers and make their lives easier, giving them more time to focus on what they are building
• Documenting and driving the adoption of engineering best practices across the wider Engineering team
• Demonstrating ownership of all initiatives from concept to launch, and embodying unwavering commitment and reliability, with a genuine willingness to contribute and address challenges

Requirements

• Experience deploying production ready applications to a Kubernetes cluster
• 2+ years of experience with a cloud provider (AWS an advantage)
• Knowledge of defining infrastructure as code, ideally with Terraform
• Experienced with a modern programming language such as Go or Python
• Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
• Experience of agile development practices and working in sprints
• Knowledge of designing PCI-compliant infrastructure will be a bonus
• Experience of working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment will be an advantage
• Ability to write clear, concise documentation
• Keen to learn, and aware of changes in the software and cloud-native technologies industry

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of designing PCI-compliant infrastructure
• Experience of working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment

Benefits

• Salary range of $70,000 - $75,000 (USD)
• Fully remote position within the -7 GMT Timezone