Staff DevOps Engineer

The Engineering team builds the software powering Veriff. We're cracking the online identity crisis in a scalable way, deploying excellence to keep Veriff on the cusp of innovation. It's a fast-paced market with many challenges. We need new talent on board to help us fill the gaps - bringing new ways of thinking into the team and, therefore, new possibilities. We're seeking an experienced team member to join our **DevOps team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer.**

In this role, you'll shape Veriff's DevOps landscape, playing a key role in service architecture, deployment efficiency, and system monitoring. We're not just seeking an engineer; we're looking for someone exceptional, ready to elevate our DevOps initiatives within the team and across the Engineering organization. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in launching SRE initiatives within the company.

**You'll help us protect honest people online by**:

- Architecting and maintaining Veriff's services for continuous operation and compliance with SLAs.
- Establishing and managing a platform enabling product teams to deploy and monitor services effectively.
- Leading initiatives to enhance operational excellence across Engineering org (e.g. architectural patterns, testing practices, alerting mechanisms, circuit-breaking strategies) and improving operational processes (incl. capacity planning, resilience testing, and postmortems).
- Ensuring transparent communication of service level status and conducting postmortems for continuous service delivery improvements, fostering trust with Veriff customers.
- Fostering a proper feedback loop between Product Engineering teams and the Engineering Platform.
- Developing, maintaining, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines for efficient service deployment.
- Implementing SRE best practices to monitor system health and logs, proactively identifying and preventing security breaches.
- Utilizing Grafana for effective monitoring, visualization, and analysis of system metrics to improve the reliability of the stack.
- Prioritizing security, engaging in security initiatives, fortifying infrastructure, and implementing robust security measures for a secure operational environment.

**You are the right future Veriffian for the job if you have**:

- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps or SRE.
- Proficient understanding of modern infrastructure stacks, including Linux, SQL/NoSQL databases, messaging systems, and microservices architectures.
- A strong background in IP networking fundamentals, with knowledge of SDN and Container networks as a plus.
- Previous experience deploying and managing services in production, emphasizing scalability and manageability.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and proficiency with cloud providers, strong knowledge with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- The ability to read, understand, and write code, with proficiency in automating tasks (e.g. Go, Python).
- Hands-on experience with the Grafana stack for advanced monitoring and visualization, deploying metrics/traces/logs collection agents (preferably Grafana agent).

**You're an especially awesome match if you have**:

- Previous experience with PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, GitOps

**Why Veriff?**

We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world's most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing With a diverse team and offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we're dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.

When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career, while looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favorites include...
- Flexibility to work from home
- Stock options that ensure your share in our success
- Comprehensive relocation support
- Extensive medical, wellness coverage to ensure you're feeling great physically and mentally
- Learning and Development budget that you are free to tailor for your own needs
- Six weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 3rd work anniversary

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