Avant Hiring for Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Remote Full Time

Avant is dedicated to building premier digital banking solutions for the middle class through a combination of technology, analytics and superior customer service. Since 2012, Avant has connected over 1.5 million customers to over $7.5 billion in loans and 700,000 credit cards. A high growth financial technology company, Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com for more information.

We’re looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to help us prepare our environment for long term growth through innovative solutions focused on platform performance and delivery!

What you do at Avant:

• Help lead our transition to Kubernetes by ensuring high availability and stability of the core platform while supporting the services and tooling migration of product development teams
• Work within the CloudOps team to support launching new core platform tools and extending our multi-cloud capabilities
• Work with other engineers and technical product managers to write, test, and deploy their code safely to production
• Drive platform a monitoring solution that alerts on symptoms, preempting issues to prevent outages and assist key stake holders in developing observability and reporting solutions for their applications
• We support big data and machine learning engineers by building tools and frameworks that enable rapid development and launch of high performance models
• Be a part of a strong culture of ownership, pragmatism, and testing
• Develop and maintain developer focused tooling empowering the organization though increased ease and efficiency
• Take on a platform architecture leadership role in requirements gathering, scoping and design sessions
• We have a culture that treats engineers as both teachers and students, and encourage this by presenting weekly Lunch and Learns, hosting hackathons, and attending conferences
• Be a member of the core of technical problem solvers addressing issues across the org to ensure effective business operations – We support applications developed using Python and deploy infrastructure using Terraform but many employees come from a variety of different backgrounds

Why you are a fit for Avant:

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience
• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience
• 3+ years of Terraform experience
• 2+ years of professional coding/scripting experience a plus given our environment –
• You have experience with AWS
• You have experience mentoring engineers in the areas of application reliability and performance engineering
• You have experience taking projects from requirements gathering to completion
• You have experience designing, developing, and maintaining geographically distributed, highly available services
• You’re a pragmatic generalist programmer who will not only help execute but also will provide a strong voice for technological direction of systems at Avant
• You are excited about refactoring and system design as we migrate to a service-based architecture and prepare for scaling and increasing data flow
• You’re entrepreneurial, self-driven, and take pride in improving our customers’ experiences
• You have strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals and coding/testing best practices
• You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts and enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
• You like communicating directly with business units from all over the company to ensure you understand and can best handle the pain points and the wide range of stakeholders’ needs

We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to enable our customers to drive their financial futures forward.

Avant is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability or genetic information or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or ordinance.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160,000.00 – $215,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

Supplemental Pay:

Education:

Experience:

• AWS: 1 year (Required)
• Kubernetes: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote