Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role: 

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work on our core Infrastructure and Security team, to assist us with designing, building, running, improving and scaling the infrastructure that engineering and data teams use to power their services. Your duties will include the development, testing, and maintenance of our serving and data platforms, using a combination of cloud products, open source tools and internal applications. Your duties will blend software development and operations in order to continuously automate our environments. You should be able to build high-quality, scalable solutions for a variety of problems. 

Our Company: 

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose mission is to financially empower young consumers. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the thousands of eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle. 

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Responsibilities: 

• Bring and share with our team extensive experience with industry best practices in software development.
• Quickly build out MVP products to test new solutions on the market.
• Be on a Pager duty on-call rotation to respond to production incidents. 
• Maintain and develop monitoring and alerting solutions to improve the on-call experience.
• Design, build and maintain scalable infrastructure for running our systems. 
• Assist product developers in debugging and triaging production issues.
• Design scalable software and data architectures to sustain rapid user growth. 
• Improve team-wide code quality through code review.
• Be the first line of defense for our operational environments, triaging and resolving problems as they occur.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor's in computer science (preferred) or equivalent related experience
• At least 5+ years of overall software, data, deployments and platform infrastructure experience.

Ideal Skills & Experience: 

• Experience with serving REST APIs using Go, Java or a similar language.
• Experience with Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud computing platforms like AWS.
• Experience with deployment/provisioning tools like Terraform, Helm, Ansible.
• Experience in ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and Open-source tools such as DBT. 
• Proficiency in building and maintaining large-scale data warehousing technologies such as Redshift.
• Strong knowledge in linux platform.
• Experience with implementing and maintaining observability and monitoring tools - Prometheus, Datadog, NewRelic, Grafana, Loki or similar.

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others. 

Perks & Benefits: 

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• Generous stock options 
• Medical, dental and vision insurance 
• Life and long term disability insurance 
• 401k with 100% match 
• Collaborative workspace, commuter benefits, full-stocked kitchen, weekly lunches and much more! 
• The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals 

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

Compensation

The compensation range for the role is $130,000-$180,000 (inclusive only of base salary, and exclusive of other potential competitive benefits such as on-target commission, bonus payments, and equity). Our ranges are very broad to accommodate all types of candidates and encourage growth. Specific compensation offered to a candidate may be dependent on factors such as education, experience, qualifications, and alignment with market data. Exceptional candidates may receive salaries outside of the posted ranges.

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