Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom through innovative financial services. As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead efforts to enhance the reliability and performance of Branch’s platform while participating in the software development lifecycle and implementing best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Developers to produce high-performing and robust services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Design infrastructure, monitoring, processes, and standards for systems and applications
• Support services through design, development, load testing, and launch phases
• Develop, measure, and monitor key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health
• Define and establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners, and drive adoption across platform teams
• Profile and optimize platform performance, resilience, and efficiency, including latency, throughput, and capacity planning under load
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
• Remediate tasks and develop preventative and automated measures to meet SLAs/SLOs/SLIs
• Manage monitoring services utilized by applications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate engineering discipline or equivalent experience required
• 3+ years experience in site reliability engineering
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating Java / Spring Boot services in production
• Experience with Terraform, Go, Java, Gradle, Docker, OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes
• Experience in scripting using Python and Bash
• Experience developing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators
• Exposure to Google Pub/Sub, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, Google Spanner and MySQL
• Experience with JVM performance tuning and profiling
• Experience working on GCP platforms