Staff Site Reliability Engineer
at Checkr
Denver, San Francisco, United States
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
About the role:
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer within the Platform group at Checkr, you will play a crucial role in advancing the reliability of our products in our mission to create the data platform of the future. Our SRE team focuses our engineering expertise on fostering service resiliency, scalability, and efficiency. The person in this role will identify engineering challenges across the organization and its services, lead the development of innovative solutions to resolve them, and drive their adoption.
Who You Are:
- Proactive in owning and improving reliability and resiliency at scale
- Motivated by sharing knowledge and excited by what can be done when a group of people is aligned in their vision
- Passionate about customer-centricity, leading by example, and building relationships across the organization
- Unwavering in your commitment to operational security and best practices
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate and drive architectural discussions across a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives
- Lead reliability roadmap planning and cross-team project execution to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
- Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability
- Participate in a cross-organization incident response team, driving continuous improvement
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality
- Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr’s engineering teams
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent education/training
- 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including 5+ years of engineering for systems reliability, scalability, and efficiency
- Strong proficiency in developing solutions in Python (preferred), GoLang, or Ruby in Linux environments
- Deep understanding of the fundamental infrastructure and platform concepts behind microservice architectures, asynchronous systems, and remote APIs
- Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
- Proficiency in developing and operating production, customer-facing environments in AWS or Azure using solutions such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
- Demonstrated ability to establish service observability standards and leverage platforms and frameworks like Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
- Proven track record of advancing incident management practices and driving continuous improvement
- Leadership skills and a passion for mentoring more junior engineers
- History of leading platform adoption across engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
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Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.
At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. Starting January 2026, hub-based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.
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