Full-Time
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Very Good Security
201-500 employees
Provides data security and compliance solutions
Compensation Overview
$165k - $210kAnnually
Senior
No H1B Sponsorship
Remote in USA
- Proven experience in SRE or DevOps roles at a staff level, with a track record of managing production systems in complex, large-scale environments.
- Strong proficiency in AWS including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, Linux Systems, microservices, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services.
- Strong plus if you are a database wiz.
- Expertise in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Datadog, Open Telemetry, New Relic, or similar tools to measure system health and performance.
- Programming and scripting experience in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or other relevant languages used in automating infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and load balancing in cloud-native environments.
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet is a plus.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor junior team members.
- Experience with incident management and disaster recovery best practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Architect and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure: Design and optimize infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance across distributed systems.
- Lead incident management and root cause analysis: Own incident response processes, ensure swift resolution of issues, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurrences.
- Service monitoring and automation: Build and maintain automated monitoring, alerting, and healing systems that improve system health, reduce manual intervention, and minimize downtime.
- Performance tuning and capacity planning: Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities and execute scaling strategies to ensure efficient handling of traffic spikes and growing workloads.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with software engineers, product teams, and DevOps to enhance system reliability and delivery pipelines.
- Improve operational processes: Champion continuous improvement initiatives in deployment, scaling, and performance testing, while advocating for the adoption of SRE best practices across the organization.
- Mentorship and leadership: Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, contribute to strategic decisions around infrastructure, and ensure best practices are implemented at scale.
- Be proactive and innovative: we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product.
Very Good Security provides a security infrastructure that helps businesses protect sensitive data, such as credit card information and social security numbers, while allowing them to focus on developing their products. Their main offerings include the VGS Vault for secure data storage and a Tokenization API that replaces sensitive data with unique symbols, ensuring that no actual data is stored in the event of a breach. This approach helps clients avoid vendor lock-in, reduce transaction fees, and increase transaction volumes. VGS serves a wide range of clients, from small startups to large corporations, and offers scalable pricing that starts free and adjusts as a client's security needs grow. The goal of VGS is to simplify data security and compliance for developers, enabling them to create products without the burden of managing sensitive data.
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$100.7M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2015
6 month growth
↑ 9%1 year growth
↑ 25%2 year growth
↑ 48%
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Strategic partnerships, such as with Onafriq and Plaid, enhance VGS's market reach and credibility in the fintech and digital finance sectors.
- The appointment of a new CEO, Chuck Yu, and significant funding rounds totaling over $139 million, indicate strong leadership and financial backing for future growth.
- The launch of innovative products like the VGS Payment Optimization suite and VGS Notifications demonstrates VGS's commitment to continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
What critics are saying
- The highly competitive data security market requires VGS to continuously innovate to maintain its edge over established players.
- Integration challenges with partners and clients could pose risks to seamless service delivery and customer satisfaction.
What makes Very Good Security unique
- VGS's unique tokenization technology ensures that sensitive data is replaced with unique identification symbols, significantly reducing the risk of data breaches.
- Their scalable pricing model allows businesses to start for free and only pay more as their security needs grow, making it accessible for startups and large corporations alike.
- VGS's focus on payment optimization and vendor lock-in avoidance provides clients with greater control over their data security and transaction fees, setting them apart from traditional data security providers.
Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?