Senior Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, California, United StatesFull TimeSenior$181,688–$213,750 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

Is this role right for you?

Upload your resume and get a skill-by-skill breakdown — see exactly where you match, where you're close, and what to highlight. Not a mystery percentage.

Get a tailored resume highlighting what this role needs.

Role summary

Carta is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Infrastructure Engineering team. This role focuses on building and scaling internal platform offerings, including compute, storage, and networking services, to ensure application reliability and performance. Responsibilities include designing and implementing monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems, and collaborating with software engineers to guide scalable design. The ideal candidate will be proficient in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), monitoring tools (Prometheus, Datadog), and software development (Python). Experience with Kubernetes, API services, and AI tools for automation is also valued. This hybrid role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a competitive salary range of $191,250 - $225,000 annually.

The Company You’ll Join

Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit. Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.

Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 9,000+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work, Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure.

Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Traditional ERP solutions don’t work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - it’s a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems You'll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work to:

Build and scale our internal platform offerings (compute, storage and networking services) to ensure the reliability, and performance of our applications.

Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.

Collaborate with application software engineers (as needed) to guide their design and ensure it scales for what Carta needs in the long run.

Act as an agent of change and push boundaries to incrementally improve our systems as we expand globally.

The Team You'll Work With

You’ll be joining the Infrastructure Engineering team at Carta. The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for providing secure, reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure to Carta’s customers and developers.

We are Software and Infrastructure Engineers who specialize in cloud computing, networking, systems design and architecture, storage, real time data telemetry, associated automation, tooling and processes. We possess a breadth and depth of knowledge about Carta’s infrastructure and industry wide best practices, that translates into leverage for Carta’s business.

About You

You are excited by the idea of developing scalable, reliable and efficient infrastructure that powers the entire company. We’re looking for strong communicators who enjoy collaborating to solve complex problems. Familiarity with infrastructure best practices on performance, reliability and security and their associated tools is appreciated.

Our stack is Python, Java, Terraform, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, running on AWS. Come join us!

Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure, including services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration is preferred!

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure.

Networking: Experience with networking concepts and tools, including Container Network Interface (CNI), Network policy implementations. Experience with proxies and service mesh is a big plus.

Monitoring and Observability: Strong knowledge of monitoring tools and practices, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog, and the ability to set up and maintain comprehensive monitoring solutions.

Software Development: Proficiency in Python, with the ability to write efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.

API Services: Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining API services, with a strong understanding of RESTful and/or GraphQL API design principles.

AI Fluency: You use AI tools in your own day-to-day work in addition to enabling others. You're comfortable building agents to reduce toil and expect this to be a normal part of how you operate.

Experience operating CI/CD and its associated best practices is also appreciated though not essential.

Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

$181,688 - $213,750 in Seattle, WA

$191,250 - $225,000 in Santa Clara, CA or San Francisco, CA

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.

Disclosures:

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email.

Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.

For information on our data privacy policies, see Privacy, CA Candidate Privacy, and Brazil Transparency Report.

Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com or @carta-external.com domain. Report any contact from unapproved domains to security@carta.com.

Ready to apply?

You'll be redirected to Carta's application page.