Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Developer

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).

Site Reliability Engineering’s Developer Experience (DX) squad is a key partner across the organization, dedicated to enabling smooth, efficient, and reliable workflows for engineers at every stage of the development lifecycle.

We do this by building tools for our development teams, improving reliability and performance of our systems, and enabling monitoring and visibility into our services. This helps us move faster and smarter within a highly regulated and secure environment. We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Datadog, Circle

CI, and write our code in Ruby on Rails and Go. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the DX squad, you'll help deliver new tools and systems that make engineering more impactful as well as maintain and improve current systems alongside a team of amazing engineers.

This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $175,000 - $205,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

• Create semantically rich abstractions for every aspect of development
• Maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Manage and optimize developer toolsets and environments
• Implement and monitor service-level objectives and indicators
• Oversee repositories for compiled code or binaries, like Artifactory or Git Hub Packages
• Make substantial code contributions to our applications and systems
• Weigh in on design documents and perform code review, providing valuable and actionable feedback to peers
• Participate in on call cycles and help drive a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.
• Find ways to spread knowledge across the organization, leveling up engineering practices and mentoring other engineers.
• Work with people who care. We’re a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves on what we do. We’re smart, innovative, energetic, and lots of fun.

• Experience building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud native solutions - we use AWS
• Extensive knowledge and experience building CI/CD pipelines with a developer first mindset
• A deep understanding of software development best practices
• Familiarity with container-based applications
• Passion for software engineering as a craft, and for creating what doesn’t yet exist
• Ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
• Appreciation for agility and pragmatism

What being at Betterment means for you

We change lives

Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate, we're at our best.…