Job Details

Overview

Your role in our mission

As a Site Reliability Engineer I at Prosper, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our technology platform. This entry-level position is designed to bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure, ensuring our systems are robust, observable, and easy to maintain. You will also contribute to optimizing deployment workflows, observability practices, and overall operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance software applications and configuration to better align with operational needs. Collaborate closely with the development team to achieve the company's overarching goals.
• Deploy, maintain, and optimize our comprehensive observability stack, including metrics, logs, and traces. Design and refine alerting strategies to transition from reactive monitoring to proactive.
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure using modern Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Leverage innovative GenAI tools to boost SRE efficiency. This involves developing and maintaining systems that utilize AI for in-depth data analysis, automated incident diagnostics, and improved deployment reliability checks.
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure production reliability.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or 1+ years of experience in a relevant technical operations or platform role.
• Possess a solid understanding of core SRE concepts and cloud computing principles.
• Demonstrate skill in at least one modern programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, Bash) for automation and tooling development.
• Experience working within Windows, Linux, or Unix environments.
• Proven ability to approach complex, ambiguous production issues with a systematic, data-driven methodology.

What we offer

• The opportunity to collaborate with a team of creative, fun, and driven colleagues on products that have an immediate and significant impact on people's lives.
• The opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment with experienced industry leaders.
• Flexible time off, comprehensive health coverage, competitive salary, paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits including access to mental health resources, virtual HIIT and yoga workouts.
• A bevy of other perks including Udemy access, childcare assistance, pet insurance discounts, legal assistance, and additional discounts.

Salary: $97,000 - $125,000 a year, plus bonus and generous benefits. In determining your salary, we will consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

About Our Technology Team

We are growing our Technology team to support our various financial products. The ideal candidate is passionate about learning the Fintech domain and delivering cutting-edge, high-quality solutions to solve business problems. We utilize a progressive, test-driven, Agile development methodology that places a high premium on communication, teamwork, sound design and clean implementation.

About Us

Prosper was founded in 2005 as the first peer-to-peer marketplace lending platform in the U.S. Our mission is to help our customers advance their financial well-being through products including personal loans, credit, HELOCs, and our HELoan. Our diverse culture rewards accountability and cross-functional teamwork.

Our Values

Diversity expands opportunities. Collaboration creates better solutions. Curiosity fuels our innovation. Integrity defines all our relationships. Excellence leads to longevity. Simplicity guides our user experience. Accountability at all levels drives results.

Prosper is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All aspects of employment including hiring decisions are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Prosper will consider qualified applicants who are non-US citizens and may provide green card sponsorship where appropriate.