Senior Infrastructure Engineer, SRE
Rocket Money2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve the reliability and resiliency of production systems and services.
- Establish and regularly review SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services and user journeys.
- Own disaster recovery strategy, including recovery objectives, failover and restore paths, and regular exercises.
- Partner with product engineering teams to improve service ownership, instrumentation, and user-focused metrics.
- Evolve observability standards for metrics, tracing, logs, instrumentation, alert quality, and cost.
- Strengthen incident response by tuning paging thresholds, maintaining runbooks, and tracking postmortem actions.
- Contribute to cloud infrastructure build-outs, platform backlog work, automation, and a shared on-call rotation of one week every six weeks.
- Lead or contribute to reliability and observability modernization, internal tooling, game days, chaos experiments, and disaster recovery exercises.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on cloud or infrastructure engineering experience, including substantial reliability and production operations work at scale.
- Experience defining SLIs and SLOs for real production services and evaluating their operational impact.
- Hands-on production experience with an observability platform; Datadog is strongly preferred.
- Ability to write code in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language for tooling, debugging, and automation.
- Production Terraform experience and comfort working in AWS.
- Experience building or operating disaster recovery plans, including recovery goals, failover and restore procedures, and drills.
- Experience being on-call for services and improving alert quality.
- Preference for enabling teams with paved roads and good defaults rather than mandates.
- Preferred experience leading reliability or observability modernization projects and delivering their implementations.
- Preferred experience building internal tooling, libraries, or instrumentation standards, running game days or chaos experiments, and reducing observability costs.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision plans.
- 401k matching.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Competitive pay, plus bonus and benefits.
- Daily lunch, snacks, and coffee for in-office employees.
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees.
- Shared on-call rotation of one week every six weeks.
About Rocket Money
Rocket Money builds a consumer personal-finance app that tracks spending, manages subscriptions, negotiates bills, builds budgets, and automates savings. The product uses a freemium model with optional premium subscriptions and success-based bill‑negotiation fees. Founded in 2015 as Truebill and headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, the company was acquired and rebranded by Rocket Companies, and now operates as its personal‑finance platform.