Senior DevOps Engineer
About Checkr
Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
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 2023 Breakthrough Company.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with our platform teams to build and run the core components that power Checkr. 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. We believe every engineering team at Checkr should be responsible for the software they build, and DevOps plays a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to make that happen.
What a typical week may look like at Checkr
- Building, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling Checkr’s cloud and on-prem infrastructure
- Improving infrastructure operations and processes with automation and tooling
- Optimizing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
- 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
What you’ll bring
- Degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or related experience
- Experience designing technical architecture and creating a strategic roadmap to realize a technical vision
- Expertise with Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS or Azure
- Experience with containers and container orchestration
- Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, web application security, and HTTP/HTTPS
- Your rollback plans are just as meticulous as your rollout plans
- Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
- An ability, willingness, and desire to mentor and up-level less experienced Infrastructure Engineers
- A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
- Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, seeour website.
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago, Chile)
$47.277.000—$55.620.000 CLP
What you get
- A collaborative and fast-moving environment
- Be part of an international company based in the United States
- 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
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.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.
Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.
*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., name@checkr.com or name@ext.checkr.com).