About Prove

As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.

Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.

Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!

Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Department: Platform Engineering

Reports To: Senior Manager, Site Reliability and Platform

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Ireland (Remote)

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, deploying, and maintaining high-availability infrastructure leveraging automation, infrastructure-as code, and advanced monitoring. You’ll partner closely with our application engineering teams to ensure our services meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

Senior SREs at Prove are responsible for driving 99.999% uptime for existing and developing products. Implementing, automating, and developing infrastructure are methods to these outcomes. Qualified candidates will be well versed in the difference between methods and ownership of outcomes and be able to demonstrate and document their previous relevant experience.

Lead

Contribute to infrastructure system design and application architecture within Platform Engineering and across engineering teams
Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code standards using tools like Terraform and/or OpenTofu
Act as a strong technical partner with our engineering teams
Champion observability with product owners and engineering teams

Optimize

Improve new and existing systems by increasing reliability, performance, and scalability
Automate routine operational tasks to reduce toil and improve efficiency
Ensure infrastructure security compliance and implement least-privilege access controls
Enhance existing CI/CD pipelines and feedback loops for maximum reliability
Enable auto-scaling infrastructure based on custom metrics for applications and critical observability infrastructure

Respond

Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation every 6-7 weeks, respond to our most critical alerts and resolve challenging events
Conduct thorough post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
Use observability data to perform root cause analysis and identify system improvements

Required Qualifications

6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or equivalent experience

Software Engineering roles with a strong infrastructure, operations, and/or production engineering aspect also qualify.

2+ years of experience in technical project leadership
Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS
Expert knowledge of observability platforms and practices (e.g., tracing, metrics, logging) with hands-on experience using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry
Strong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration and Gitops methodologies
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Terragrunt, Spacelift, OpenTofu)
Skilled proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
Experience working in a high compliance environment
Hand-on experience instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry
Deep familiarity with service mesh technologies
Contributions to open-source projects
Experience in the identity verification or financial technology industry
Application development experience

This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

The anticipated salary range for this role is EUR 90,000 - 105,000 plus variable commission / company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:

Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Equal Opportunity Employment:

Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics

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