Best Egg
Site Reliability Engineer
TLDR
Lead major incident recovery and drive observability improvements across services to reduce toil and boost reliability.
Best Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. We aim to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track, so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them.
We offer top-tier benefits and growth opportunities in a culture built on our core values:
Put People First – We foster an inclusive, flexible, and fun workplace.
Create Clarity – Open communication drives trust and results.
Get Things Done – We focus, prioritize, and deliver with excellence.
Deliver with Heart – We lead with kindness, humility, and strong teamwork.
Listen to Our Customers – Their needs drive our innovation.
Barclays has entered into an agreement to acquire Best Egg with closing expected to take place in Q2 2026. This acquisition will give us the resources and capital to continue on our mission and drive our strategy forward. With an aligned culture, lower cost of funds, and increased employee growth opportunities across a global brand, we are excited about the future of the Best Egg brand under the Barclays umbrella.
We are looking for collaborative, innovative team players who like to solve problems. There will also be immense opportunities for those willing to dive in. If you're inspired by growth and want to make a real difference, Best Egg is the place for you.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.
Duties & Responsibilities
Required
Recommended
Skill Set
Success Metrics in First 90 Days
- Lead technical recovery efforts for major incidents, coordinating triage, evidence review, restoration actions, and validation.
- Optimize observability strategy, alert quality, dashboard standards, and telemetry coverage across multiple services.
- Drive reliability initiatives that reduce recurring failures, noisy alerts, manual work, and operational risk.
- Mentor associate engineers on troubleshooting methods, RCA evidence, runbook quality, and production support judgment.
- Influence engineering decisions by identifying reliability risks, missing telemetry, supportability gaps, and resiliency patterns.
- Improve JAMS, GoAnywhere, Datadog, xMatters, and service support practices through automation and standards.
- Partner with leaders and technical teams to prioritize remediations based on customer impact, business impact, and operational exposure.
- Hands-on familiarity with production support, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
- Working knowledge of Datadog dashboards, monitors, logs, metrics, and APM concepts.
- Ability to troubleshoot application, infrastructure, batch, or file transfer issues using runbooks and telemetry.
- Exposure to AWS or cloud operations and scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar tools.
- Clear communication skills during incidents, service requests, and post-incident follow-through.
- Strong experience leading production incident recovery and cross-system reliability investigations.
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions without direct authority.
- Datadog, AWS, ITIL, Linux, or automation certification.
- Experience with JAMS, GoAnywhere, xMatters, ServiceNow/Jira, or CI/CD environments.
- Exposure to AIOps, anomaly detection, operational automation, or reliability engineering.
- Familiarity with financial services controls, secure file transfer, or regulated operations.
- Serves as a reliability SME across observability, incident response, batch operations, and operational platforms.
- Leads major incident recovery with calm command of telemetry, dependencies, impact, and restoration options.
- Reduces operational toil through automation, standards, better alerting, and durable remediation.
- Mentors engineers and improves the quality of technical support practices across the team.
- Influences design and readiness decisions that improve resiliency and operational resilience.
- Lead a major incident or complex reliability investigation with clear recovery and follow-through.
- Deliver an observability or automation improvement that measurably reduces alert noise, toil, or repeat issues.
- Mentor associate engineers through troubleshooting reviews, runbook improvements, or incident debriefs.
- Identify and influence remediation of a meaningful resiliency or supportability gap.
- Improve standards or patterns for telemetry, escalation, batch support, or operational validation.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover every activity, duty, or responsibility required for the job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Best Egg celebrates diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better we will grow.
Employee Benefits
Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):
· Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching
program
· Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--
term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company
holidays
· Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
· Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health
Reimbursement Accounts
· Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee
assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
· Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,
fitness center reimbursements, and many more!
Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
Health Insurance
Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
Additional benefits
Other discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!
Paid Time Off
Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
Best Egg is a tech-enabled financial platform designed to empower individuals to build financial confidence through a range of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. We cater to everyday consumers facing financial challenges, providing them with accessible credit options and resources to make informed financial decisions.
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
Site Reliability Engineer