Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

🏢 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.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Checkr, your primary function will not just be managing our infrastructure, but also acting as a bridge, cementing strong relationships across all engineering teams. Your distinct role will involve fostering a culture of shared responsibility promoting Platform Engineering practices and driving platform adoption across teams. You will enable all teams to take collective ownership of their software's reliability, scalability, and performance. You will also guide other teams in fine-tuning their services, resulting in improved robustness and efficiency, ensuring that every team can focus on building superior software, backed by a reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Building, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling Checkr’s cloud infrastructure
• Improving infrastructure operations and processes with automation and tooling
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Participating in or leading design reviews and production reviews for new infrastructure services
• Debugging production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Ensuring the scalability and security of Checkr infrastructure
• Partnering with application developers to ensure best practices and efficient use of infrastructure
• Building and fostering collaborative relationships with other engineering teams and leaders
• Planning for the growth of Checkr’s infrastructure

📌 Required Qualifications

• Advanced English communication skills — written and verbal. (You will report to a US-based manager, and all technical interviews will be conducted by our US engineering team).
• Availability to work on hybrid schedule in Santiago, Chile (3 days per week, Offices located in Gran torre Costanera)
• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or related experience
• Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
• Experience in designing technical architecture and creating a strategic roadmap to realize a technical vision
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, CI, CD, IaC, Terraform, Linux, and microservice architecture
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, web application security, and HTTP/HTTPS
• Experience with Istio or other service mesh technologies
• Your rollback plans are just as meticulous as your rollout plans
• A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
• Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
• Experience with Python

🎁 Benefits

• A collaborative and fast-moving environment
• Be part of an international company based in the United States
• $3,000 USD per year learning and development reimbursement allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.