About the Role
Join Checkly as a Staff Platform Engineer and be at the forefront of the Monitoring as Code (MaC) movement. We're a remote-first startup on a mission to enable developers to detect and resolve issues 10x faster with code-first synthetic monitoring for modern DevOps. Monitor your APIs and apps at a fraction of the price of legacy providers. Powered by a Monitoring as Code workflow and Playwright.
Thousands of developers are using Checkly today, including those at 1Password, Autodesk, AutoTrader, CrowdStrike, Deno, Render, Sentry, and Vercel.
What You'll Do
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will lead our site reliability practices with a strong background in distributed systems architecture and high scale cloud backends. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Improving reliability and evolving our infrastructure
- Being hands-on in our stack, driving challenging platform initiatives
- Scaling up our infrastructure together with our backend engineers
- Influencing the development of our cloud architecture roadmap and code-based infrastructure management ("Infrastructure as code")
- Defining observability of our backend platform
- Optimizing performance and reducing error rates
- Working directly with our VP of Engineering to have reliability baked into everything we do
- Identifying valuable infrastructure initiatives, communicating them clearly, and bringing them from idea to production
What You Should Have
- Background of technical leadership driving engineering excellence
- Experience in building, scaling or managing production web services
- Deep working experience with AWS, SQL & OLAP databases and Node.js
- First-hand experience with SRE practices: SLOs/SLAs, modern incident management, etc.
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment
What We Offer
- Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are
- Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where you can have a real impact
- Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first and transparent culture
- Stock options
- 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays
- Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- $1,000 learning & visiting budget
- Co-working budget or home office setup
- Company retreats
Apply
If this sounds interesting, please apply! We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse team.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Remote-first work environment
- Flexible work hours
- Stock options
- 27 days paid vacation
- Public holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Learning and visiting budget
- Co-working budget or home office setup
- Company retreats
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