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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Washington, DC

About Virtru:

Virtru is a leading data protection provider backed by some of the foremost venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and the Mid-Atlantic region, including Iconiq Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Capital, and Tiger Global. Today, more than ever, data demands respect, and that’s why Virtru is committed to changing the rules for data privacy. At Virtru, we equip our customers to take granular control of their data—everywhere it’s shared—through end-to-end encryption for Google, Microsoft, and other data sharing platforms. Our market-leading portfolio of data encryption and privacy enhancing applications are remarkably easy to use, fast to implement, affordable for all, and built on the Trusted Data Format (TDF) open standard.

At Virtru, our motto is "Respect the people. Respect the data." Respecting data to us means keeping it secure and protected at all times across its entire lifecycle. We firmly believe that when you respect data, you’re demonstrating respect for the people who own that data.

Working at Virtru, you'll be inspired by colleagues who are passionate about the work they do. We are dedicated to creating an atmosphere that sparks creativity, connection, and professional growth while empowering each other to do our best work. We're building something special at Virtru. We hope you consider joining our team and helping us create a brighter future for data privacy.

Compensation: $150,000-200,000/year

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Virtru,  Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Remote)

 

Automation, cloud native technologies, Kubernetes, and delivery orchestration... Here at Virtru you’ll join an innovative team that is establishing a cloud native data security platform. Our software is undergoing a transformation and your contributions will help us deliver Virtru products to our internal AWS and GCP infrastructure, externally to our customers through cloud marketplaces, and to the open source community with the community edition of our platform and public Helm charts.

 

Our cloud native stack includes CNCF technologies like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio, Kyverno, Terraform & Atlantis, Ansible, GitHub, and Datadog. We have great patterns in place and need help implementing them throughout our polyglot microservice ecosystem. We also have exciting R&D opportunities on the horizon with improvements to our service mesh, multicluster / multicloud clusters, chaos engineering, performance benchmarking, and establishing Virtru in additional public cloud marketplaces.

 

Get in touch if you are excited to help us grow our infrastructure into a world-class cloud native privacy solution.

 

You will:

  • Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Establish frictionless and automated delivery systems (CI/CD pipelines) for development teams.
  • Define and implement Kubernetes best practices (conventions, security policies, resource management).
  • Support and optimize workloads running in Kubernetes, troubleshooting issues, identifying and implementing improvements
  • Implement GitOps best practices .
  • Improve and expand our self-service engineering platform.

 

You bring:

  • Experience running and managing production workloads in Kubernetes at scale.
  • Comfort writing tools and automations in languages like Go, Node, or Python.
  • Proficiency in shell scripting.
  • Understanding of container best practices (Docker, OCI) and Kubernetes design patterns (operators, controllers, CRDs).
  • Experience with Windows and Linux system administration.
  • Clear and effective communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • A passion for learning, teaching, and mentoring.
  • A security-conscious mindset and a commitment to building secure and resilient systems.

 

Preferences & Bonus items:

  • Familiarity with the Cloud Native landscape.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
  • Experience with security compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI, FedRAMP, etc.) 
  • Strong analytical and creative abilities.
  • Hands-on approach to work.
  • Experience with our current stack.
  • Helm or Kustomize experience (especially as a publisher).
  • Public cloud marketplace experience.
  • Multicloud Kubernetes experience.

 

We believe in a low-stress, candidate-friendly interview experience. We want you to be comfortable and perform at your best. Our process is designed to be a conversation, not an interrogation. Here's what you can expect:

  • Initial Screen: A brief call with our recruiting team.
  • Technical Interview: A discussion-based interview with members of our engineering team. We'll explore your experience with Kubernetes, SRE & DevOps principles, and related technologies. We may look at some existing code to debug issues together. This is a chance for us to understand your approach to problem-solving and your familiarity with real-world scenarios. We'll focus on topics that are interesting and relevant to you.
  • Manager Interview: Meet with members of the management team to discuss your experience and how you might contribute to our culture and goals.
  • Final Interview: A conversation with a hiring manager to discuss the overall fit and answer any remaining questions.

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