The Engineering team builds the software powering Veriff. We're cracking the online identity crisis in a scalable way, deploying excellence to keep Veriff on the cusp of innovation. It's a fast-paced market with many challenges. We need new talent on board to help us fill the gaps - bringing new ways of thinking into the team and, therefore, new possibilities. We're seeking an experienced team member to join our DevOps team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer.
In this role, you'll shape Veriff's DevOps landscape, playing a key role in service architecture, deployment efficiency, and system monitoring. We're not just seeking an engineer; we're looking for someone exceptional, ready to elevate our DevOps initiatives within the team and across the Engineering organization. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in launching SRE initiatives within the company.
You’ll help us protect honest people online by:
- Architecting and maintaining Veriff's services for continuous operation and compliance with SLAs.
- Establishing and managing a platform enabling product teams to deploy and monitor services effectively.
- Leading initiatives to enhance operational excellence across Engineering org (e.g. architectural patterns, testing practices, alerting mechanisms, circuit-breaking strategies) and improving operational processes (incl. capacity planning, resilience testing, and postmortems).
- Ensuring transparent communication of service level status and conducting postmortems for continuous service delivery improvements, fostering trust with Veriff customers.
- Fostering a proper feedback loop between Product Engineering teams and the Engineering Platform.
- Developing, maintaining, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines for efficient service deployment.
- Implementing SRE best practices to monitor system health and logs, proactively identifying and preventing security breaches.
- Applying SRE methodologies in participating in on-call rotations, ensuring swift resolution of incidents in production systems.
- Utilizing Grafana for effective monitoring, visualization, and analysis of system metrics to improve the reliability of the stack.
- Prioritizing security, engaging in security initiatives, fortifying infrastructure, and implementing robust security measures for a secure operational environment.
You are the right future Veriffian for the job if you have:
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps or SRE.
- Proficient understanding of modern infrastructure stacks, including Linux, SQL/NoSQL databases, messaging systems, and microservices architectures.
- A strong background in IP networking fundamentals, with knowledge of SDN and Container networks as a plus.
- Previous experience deploying and managing services in production, emphasizing scalability and manageability.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and proficiency with cloud providers, strong knowledge with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- The ability to read, understand, and write code, with proficiency in automating tasks (e.g. Go, Python).
- Understanding and application of SRE principles in system reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Hands-on experience with the Grafana stack for advanced monitoring and visualization, deploying metrics/traces/logs collection agents (preferably Grafana agent).
You’re an especially awesome match if you have:
- Previous experience with PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, GitOps
Why Veriff?
We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world’s most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team and offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.
When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career, while looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favorites include...
- Flexibility to work from home
- Stock options that ensure your share in our success
- Comprehensive relocation support
- Extensive medical, wellness coverage to ensure you’re feeling great physically and mentally
- Learning and Development budget that you are free to tailor for your own needs
- Six weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 3rd work anniversary
We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Different opinions, perspectives and personalities push us forward. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We also know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates - so rest assured, whoever you are, we want to hear from you!
