Senior Site Reliability Engineer
MeridianLinkabout 6 hours ago
Base Salary
$104k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer AWS services, accounts, access, PostgreSQL, and other data stores.
- Maintain backup coverage for databases, S3 buckets, and queues; regularly verify restores and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
- Monitor production using 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.
- Refine and maintain scalable, deployable infrastructure as code; 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, especially with Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and S3.
- Strong PostgreSQL administration experience, including backup and recovery, query performance, and administration of 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.
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About MeridianLink
Making lending human for banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders. MeridianLink offers the most connected digital lending platform—bringing account opening, loan origination, mortgages, collections, and reporting together in a single, intuitive ecosystem. Our platform automates what should be automated, simplifies what should be simple, and elevates the human moments that matter most so your teams can focus on building relationships—not processes.