or apply directly on Altruist's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 49 days Altruist's roles stay open a median of 74 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 10% of Altruist's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Altruist
- high 77 stale, 0 reposted of 81 open
- Hiring momentum
- 98 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Altruist's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Altruist.
About this role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Altruist, you will focus on enhancing the performance and resilience of backend systems while collaborating with various teams to solve technical challenges. Your responsibilities will include mentoring teams on secure coding practices, implementing observability best practices, managing incident response processes, and employing automated testing to ensure high-quality code. This role is pivotal in contributing to shared infrastructure that supports all product teams within the company.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Altruist as an employer.
What you need
- 3+ years of experience building scalable backend services at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
- Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs
- Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
- Understanding of performant and reliable systems
Nice to have
- Expertise with AI best practices
- Proficient with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
- Experience with managing tabletop exercises
- Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, pipelines in Gitlab
- Familiarity with tooling such as Terraform, Debezium, Temporal, and Open Telemetry
What you get
- Competitive total compensation
- Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO)
- 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting
- 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment
- Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee
- Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.)
Worth weighing
- Hybrid role with an expectation of being in the office at least three days per week
- Salary range is provided, but no specific benefits related to bonuses or performance reviews are detailed beyond general statements
- The role emphasizes a strong cultural fit with values such as kindness, brilliance, and grit, which may be subjective and require alignment with personal values
Summarised from Altruist's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Altruist on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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