About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Team 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

Additional Information 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 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 ranges for this role are as follows: San Francisco, CA: $162,000 to $191,000; Denver, CO: $138,000 to $162,000.

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.

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