Software Engineer, Reliability

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic. We’re 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 Software Engineer II on the Site Reliability Engineering team within the Platform Engineering group at Checkr, you will identify reliability challenges impacting engineering teams and platforms and develop innovative solutions to resolve them. 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 you’ll do: Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr’s engineering teams Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality Participate in a cross-organization incident response team, driving continuous improvement Contribute to architectural discussions within the SRE team and with cross-functional teams Influence cross-team projects and the reliability roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers Provide consultation and feedback across teams to ensure we are building highly reliable, efficient, and scalable systems What you bring: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience 2+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ years focused on reliability, scalability, and efficiency o