1 year ago
Base Salary
$205k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead incident response and establish sustainable on-call practices with runbooks, blameless postmortems, and improvements to reduce MTTR.
- Develop and maintain self-service observability solutions for troubleshooting and performance optimization.
- Create and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure as code using Terraform and CloudFormation on AWS.
- Architect resilient infrastructure for databases, networking, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines in partnership with feature teams.
- Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
- Advocate for reliability and future-proofing during feature design.
Requirements
- Expertise leading incident response for high-availability production systems, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
- Experience designing highly available deployment architectures across targets such as EC2 and Fargate, including auto-scaling, health checks, and graceful degradation.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions such as Datadog, Prometheus, and ELK.
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply even if their experience is not an exact match.
Benefits
- The position is based in January's New York office.
- The company emphasizes professional development and on-the-job learning.
- January is committed to transparent, fair, and equitable compensation practices and equal opportunity.
About January
At January, we’re transforming the lives of borrowers by bringing humanity to consumer finance. Our data-driven products empower financial institutions to streamline their collections, providing borrowers with straightforward and compassionate solutions to regain financial stability and control over their lives. We’re not just expanding access to credit. We’re restoring dignity and paving the way for millions to achieve financial freedom.