Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Site Reliability Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the platform layer that determines whether a product can operate reliably as customer usage grows. The remit spans shared tooling and patterns—especially observability—used across multiple engineering teams, which is a common inflection point for SaaS companies moving from team-by-team practices to a more standardized, scalable operating model.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work builds durable leverage: designing libraries and frameworks that become default building blocks, shaping incident response maturity, and influencing architectural decisions across services. Experience balancing standardization with team-specific workflows is particularly portable in SaaS, where product velocity, uptime expectations, and multi-tenant complexity often pull in different directions. The emphasis on troubleshooting availability, performance, and data-quality issues also maps directly to the operational realities of subscription businesses.
The role is best suited to an engineer who prefers cross-cutting impact over single-service ownership and is comfortable driving adoption through collaboration and documentation. It fits someone who enjoys ambiguity in platform roadmaps, can communicate trade-offs to varied stakeholders, and wants to be accountable for reliability outcomes at the system level.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the role:
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Platform team, you will identify issues and technical challenges across the engineering teams and platforms, develop innovative solutions to resolve them, and drive their adoption. You will strive towards the right balance between enforcing standardization and accommodating tailored workflows. The person in this role will have the opportunity to demonstrate a degree of autonomy in their work and help with complex support requests, while having an impact across engineering.
Who You Are:
- You have a strong sense of ownership with a proactive nature
- You are motivated by sharing knowledge and excited by what can be done when a group of people is aligned in their vision
- You possess a great desire to collaborate, improve, and innovate
- You are passionate about observability at scale and finding solutions to issues
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate, drive, and execute architectural discussions with cross-functional teams
- Lead cross-team projects and SREs' technical roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers
- Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr’s engineering teams
- Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality
- Present detailed technical information and benefits of the Checkr platform to a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives
What You Bring:
- Degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- 6+ years of experience in building tools with Python (preferred), GoLang, or Ruby
- 6+ years of experience in maintaining and observing production customer-facing environments in AWS or Azure
- 6+ years of experience as a member of an incident response team
- Deep understanding of the fundamental infrastructure and platform concepts behind a micro-service architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous queueing models
- Experience with observability platforms and frameworks like Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
- Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
- Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform
- Experience driving platform adoption across engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
- A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
- Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
What you’ll get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
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. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
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.
The base salary range for this role is $162,000 to $191,000 in San Francisco, CA.
The base salary range for this role is $138,000 to $162,000 in Denver, CO.
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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