Who We Are

Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have entrusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 50 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 trillion in assets. Addepar’s open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Pune, and Dubai.

The Role

We are looking to add a highly experienced and impactful colleague to the organization to drive the transformation of Addepar’s Production Engineering and SRE team. This role focuses on evolving our platform towards enabling high-level declarative infrastructure orchestration and its operations. This platform closely integrates our Compute, Network, and Storage control planes, allowing us to develop highly efficient and fast-to-iterate-on services tailored to various product areas within the company, abstracting our developers from the nuances of underlying infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will play a staff, leading role in implementing, maintaining, and strategically evolving Addepar’s Production Infrastructure.. You will bring a robust combination of leading innovative solutions across functional teams and extensive hands-on development experience in AWS/cloud, Linux/Unix, networking, advanced scripting abilities, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Information Security, deep debugging, and comprehensive monitoring/observability skills. This includes designing, deploying, monitoring, automating, and optimizing all operational aspects of Addepar's platform with a focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

What You’ll Do Lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of container infrastructure using Kubernetes (k8s), ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Architect, build, and maintain advanced, automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS CodeBuild/Pipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar, establishing best practices for deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary).. Drive the adoption and evangelism of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, focusing on scaling the Addepar Platform across regions with a focus on cost optimization and operational efficiency. Develop deep application-level knowledge to proactively inform and influence infrastructure requirements and constraints for Developers, QA, and Management, including implementing sophisticated dashboards for Cost and Inventory management, performance analysis, and capacity planning. Perform advanced monitoring and troubleshooting of our infrastructure and application stack using a wide array of logging/monitoring tools, driving root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures. Initiate and lead collaborations with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve complex Application or infrastructure issues, serving as a technical subject matter expert. Serve as a primary on-call responder for critical incidents, demonstrating strong problem-solving skills under pressure and contributing to post-incident reviews to improve system resilience. Highlight team-specific activities, followed by how this role will interact with other teams and groups Who You Are Extensive progressive experience in the SRE/DevOps/Systems Engineer field, with a track record of taking on increasing responsibility. Expert-level understanding of Cloud Infrastructure fundamentals (AWS preferred), including advanced networking, security, and managed services. Exceptional Programming/Scripting skills in various common languages (Python , Bash, and general Linux tools are essential; Java is a strong plus), with an emphasis on building scalable, maintainable automation and tools. Broad and deep expertise with UNIX/BSD/Linux internals (Ubuntu preferred), including performance tuning, kernel-level debugging, and advanced system administration. Extensive Containerization experience with k8s (KOPS, EKS, ECS preferred), including cluster management, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and advanced deployment strategies. Demonstrable experience leading initiatives with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform in complex, multi-account environments. Proficient experience with comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Sumologic, or advanced AWS cloud-native tools, with a focus on observability strategy. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with multi-functional teams, articulate complex technical concepts, and influence outcomes. Demonstrable experience writing and contributing to significant systems automation tooling or open-source projects is a strong plus. Exposure to industry practices in financial services is a plus.

Our Values 

Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes. Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.  Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.  Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.  Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset. 

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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