Checkr

People infrastructure for the future of work

Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

$157K - $218KDenver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 6+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Apply to Checkr and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a singleprofile. Apply to role 

About the role

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart and Airtable. Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Site Reliability Engineering team within the Platform Engineering group at Checkr you will identify issues and technical challenges 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. What youll do:

• Collaborate and drive architectural discussions within the SRE team and with cross-functional teams
• Lead projects and contribute to the SRE teams 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 Checkrs engineering teams
• Participate in a cross-organization incident response team driving continuous improvement
• 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

What you bring:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience including 2+ years focused on reliability scalability and efficiency of distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in developing solutions Python (preferred) Go or Ruby in Linux environments with deep understanding of microservices asynchronous systems and remote APIs
• Experience developing and operating production systems in AWS or Azure using Kubernetes Docker and Terraform
• Expertise in observability and operational excellence including monitoring (Datadog Splunk Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry) and improving incident management processes
• Strong collaboration communication and leadership skills including mentoring engineers and driving platform adoption through a self-service product-focused approach
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action you raise the bar move with urgency stay resilient through ambiguity and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

What youll 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

Pay Transparency Disclosure One of Checkrs core values is Transparency To live by that value weve 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. On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco CA) $185000$218000 USD On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver CO) $157000$185000 USD At Checkr we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation encourages connection Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA Nashville TN Santiago Chile Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week In-office perks are provided such as lunch five times a week commuter stipend abundance of snacks beverages A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location. Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr Checkr is committed to building the best product company which requires hiring talented qualified individuals with diverse set perspectives lived experiences Checkr believes in hiring people all backgrounds including those whose histories are impacted by justice system accordance local state federal laws including San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance Applicant Privacy Policy If you are California resident or located Alberta British Columbia our Applicant Privacy Policy applies collection processing your personal information when apply role us otherwise participate recruitment process.

About Checkr

Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work Weve designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers Established in 2014 Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning hands hiring teams helping hire great new people experience thats fast smooth safe Checkr has over100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart Airtable A career at Checkr means collaborating brilliant minds disrupting industry opening channels employment often overlooked candidates Checkr recognized Forbes Cloud1002024 List Y Combinator2024 Breakthrough Company.