TransUnion

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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Chicago, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$113k - $188k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to architecture and strategy for major platform components across multiple systems.
  • Lead research, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement of systems and tooling.
  • Perform capacity planning, load testing, security improvements, and other complex platform work.
  • Participate fully in on-call rotation and provide calm, blameless incident response.
  • Serve as a significant technical contributor during major incidents and problem resolution.
  • Plan and lead high-risk maintenance events with minimal to no customer impact.
  • Improve team standards through tooling, processes, procedures, and communication.
  • Lead and represent the team during transitions or coverage gaps.
  • Set technical quality, engineering culture, and cross-functional collaboration benchmarks.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related fields.
  • Proven track record designing and delivering systems at enterprise scale.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes for high-volume, high-availability workloads.
  • Expert command of monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms including Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or PagerDuty.
  • Deep Linux expertise including kernel internals, system performance tuning, hardening, and production troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML-powered solutions into cloud-native platforms.
  • Familiarity with LLM orchestration, vector databases, model serving infrastructure, and AI observability.
  • Ability to evaluate emerging tools and translate them into reliable, production-grade capabilities.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule requiring at least two days per week in an assigned TransUnion office.
  • Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage with supplemental plan options.
  • HSA and FSA accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability coverage, legal plan, pet insurance, and travel accident coverage.
  • Adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, caregiver support, Dependent Care FSA, Care@Work membership, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial wellness resources, career coaching, and optional long-term care insurance.
  • Tuition reimbursement, flexible or paid time off depending on classification, up to 12 paid holidays, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable gift matching, and paid volunteer time off.
  • 24/7 access to therapy, coaching, emotional well-being programs, guided meditation, and wellness resources.

Tech Stack

DatadogGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheus

Categories

Site Reliability
TransUnion

About TransUnion

10,000+ employees

TransUnion is a global credit bureau and information-services company that provides credit data, identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk analytics to businesses and consumers. It sells data, APIs, and decisioning software used by lenders, insurers, telecoms, and other regulated industries, and offers consumer credit reports and monitoring. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Chicago, it operates in more than 30 countries and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker TRU.

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