ABOUT HAPPY MONEY Happy Money®is building a happier and more equitable financial ecosystem that seamlessly blends psychology, technology, and a focus on happiness to help consumers go from borrower to saver, investor, and giver. The company provides a path toward improving financial well-being and securing greater happiness –beginning with paying off credit card debt –through its science-enabled, purpose-driven marketplace between mission-aligned capital and consumers. Backed by leading investors including Anthemis Group, Tencent Holdings and CMFG Ventures, Happy Money has helped nearly 150,000 members pay off more than $2.7 billion in credit card debt since inception through its award-winning Payoff Loan™. Founded in 2009, Happy Money has a diverse employee base of over 350 people across the United States. ABOUT THE TEAM Happy Money is looking for key people to build out our SRE team.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- You will be part of an overall organization composed of various engineers and specialists that focus in infrastructure, operations, development, observability, and security.
- Along with a few other specialist people, the Platform Engineering/SRE is instrumental in the future public API-driven services which define Happy Money's road forward
- This role will report into our VP, Systems Confidence
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- With senior Engineering leadership and in consultation with functional areas (Systems Engineering/Operations, Development, QA, Program Management, Data Engineering, etc), scope, create, deploy, and manage platforms to measure and increase site availability and responsiveness
- Will bring significant experience to bear in assessing and remediating site reliability issues
- Believes in robust automation everywhere (of course)
- Exhibits extreme ownership mentality
- Can anticipate future infrastructure/platform/applications needs at scale, and can offer and implement practical solutions
- Be on-call
- Work Pacific Time hours
- Will successfully mentor others in SRE fundamentals
ABOUT YOU
- Have excellent verbal and written communications skills
- 15+ years experience as an SRE, developer, systems engineer, DevOps, or other such contributor
- 6+ years experience as a Sr. SRE
- 5+ years experience with AWS services
- Strong facility with either Java or Python is required;strong ability with both is highly desired
- You are an expert at Bash development
- Adequate capability in Javascript, Ruby, and/or Perl is a plus
- 5+ years with modern, agile SDLC practices, orchestration tooling, and CI/CD platforms (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation, CodeDeploy, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc)
- Very deep experience with common security monitoring, SIEMs, penetration, and other such platforms (e.g., Splunk, AWS GuardDuty, Qualys, AlienVault, etc)
- Ability to make nuanced threat assessments
- Experience with the NIST family of Information Security-related publications including 800-37, 800-30, and 800-53
- Significant experience with PCI, SOC2, SOX, HIPAA, or other compliance regimes
BONUS POINTS FOR
- Significant experience with financial systems or loan origination systems
- Have strong connections with industry leaders who we could leverage for topical discussions