Staff Reliability Engineer

About Checkr
Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. 

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2023 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

What you get

• A collaborative and fast-moving environment
• Be part of an international company based in the United States
• Learning and development reimbursement allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

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 hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.   

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., name@checkr.com).