Senior Site Reliability Engineer
MeridianLink2 months ago
Base Salary
$104k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer AWS services, accounts, access, PostgreSQL, and other data stores.
- Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues; regularly verify restores and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
- Monitor production using CloudWatch dashboards, metric alarms, log-based metrics, and Slack alerting.
- Lead production debugging and incident response, maintain runbooks, participate in on-call rotation, and resolve queue and dead-letter-queue failures through retry, redrive, and recovery.
- Maintain accurate, deployable, scalable infrastructure as code with SST and Pulumi, retire unused infrastructure, and keep costs visible and justified.
- Share production operations knowledge with the team and foster learning and growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 4-6 years of related experience, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations with significant responsibility for production systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience, emphasizing serverless services including Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and S3.
- Strong PostgreSQL database administration experience covering operations, backup and recovery, and query performance, plus comfort administering other data stores.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, Python, and bash for production automation and operational tooling.
- Strong understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code using SST, Pulumi, or Terraform.
- Experience with production monitoring and alerting, incident response, and on-call ownership.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About MeridianLink
MeridianLink builds cloud software for financial institutions to open accounts, originate consumer and mortgage loans, manage collections, and verify data. Its platform is sold to banks, credit unions, and consumer reporting agencies via subscriptions with implementation and managed services. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, MeridianLink is a public company on the NYSE.