Senior Engineer, Site Reliability

Ibotta is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. As part of the engineering team, you will work on the platform that powers our app that is used by millions of consumers. We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who has a passion for making services and infrastructure scalable, reliable, and observable. Every engineer has input into our engineering culture, our products and development processes, and will have a real impact as part of a small, nimble team.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado or with the option of full-time remote. Candidates must live in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

What you will be doing:

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & Advocate for Savers

• Work directly with engineering teams to deploy, operate, and scale their services on Ibotta’s cloud infrastructure. 

• Influence engineering best practices to improve MTBF, MTTR, MTTF and incident response. 

• Identify opportunities to improve service scalability, reliability, and observability. 

• Partner with stakeholders to define, implement, and drive adoption of reliability standards, patterns, and practices across the entire engineering organization. 

• Work with product teams to identify and improve service SLIs/SLOs/SLAs. 

• Write tests and perform code reviews to ensure that we're shipping reliable, readable, and reusable code.

• Research and implement technology solutions for a reliable, high performance, high transaction system.

• Ensure that security and compliance are first-class objects across Ibotta’s infrastructure and services.

• Participate in an on-call rotation for the services you are responsible for.

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Development, or similar.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field required.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work with stakeholders both within and outside of engineering. 

• Strong experience operating applications at scale. 

• Deep understanding of operational concepts such as SLIs, SLAs, and SLOs.

• A track record of shepherding projects from inception to planning and completion. 

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, etc.

• Experience with MySQL, Postgres or other RDBMS.

• Expertise in AWS/GCloud/Azure.

• Experience with the management and deployment of highly available systems.

• Experience automating tasks for internal or external applications.

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development practices.

• Experience working on a production platform with hundreds of thousands or millions of users.

• Experience implementing Continuous Integration/Delivery for applications and infrastructure.

• Knowledge of software design and architecture principles.

Some of the traits that we seek in great engineers:

• You….

  • love to teach and learn from your co-workers.

  • look for ways to continually challenge yourself and develop as an engineer.

  • understand that communication is a huge part of your software engineering responsibility and practice it daily.

  • understand that testing your code is one of the most important aspects of software engineering.

  • respect diverse perspectives and like collaborating with other engineers to solve hard problems.

  • understand that delivering products incrementally helps provide more value to the business.

  • trust your teammates, and embrace healthy conflict and debate. You believe getting it right is more important than being right.

About Us:

Built in Denver, CO, Ibotta ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping app that gives users cash back on groceries and more. Through our partnerships with brands and retailers like Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Uber, we’ve delivered over $1B in cumulative cash rewards to our Savers. Guided by our values and our mission to make every purchase rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we get to build, and the people we get to innovate (and have fun) with. Ibotta made Inc.’s 2020 list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

 Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO or with the option of full-time remote and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, 401k match, profit sharing and equity.

• Base compensation range: $120,000 - $160,000.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard with race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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