Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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.

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

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.

On‑target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)

$190,000 - $224,000 USD

On‑target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO)

$161,000 - $189,000 USD

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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