Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Carta operates an intelligent platform for private capital markets, connecting data, workflows, and people across portfolio management, cap tables, fund administration, and tax services. It serves private equity firms, venture capital firms, private corporations, and limited partners.
About Carta
Carta provides a platform that helps players in private capital—including private equity firms, venture capital firms, private corporations, and limited partners—manage portfolios, move money, and model the future with unprecedented connectivity. Its offerings combine cutting-edge AI with expert human service, including cap table management, fund administration, tax services (such as Carta Fund Tax and QSBS attestation), 409A valuations, compliance, and reporting tools. The platform emphasizes real-time visibility, agentic intelligence for productivity, strategic modeling for scenario planning, and end-to-end collaboration between firms, companies, investors, and partners. Carta serves a large client base including over 1.7 million equity holders, 50,000+ companies, and 9,000+ funds and SPVs, with clients ranging from venture capital funds to global private corporations operating across multiple countries.
Skills
About the Role
You'll join Carta's Infrastructure Engineering team to build and scale internal platform offerings, including compute, storage, and networking services, ensuring the reliability and performance of Carta's applications. You'll design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems, and collaborate with application software engineers to guide their design decisions so systems scale for Carta's long-term needs. You'll act as an agent of change, pushing boundaries to incrementally improve systems as the company expands globally.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration preferred
- Proficient in using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Experience with networking concepts and tools, including Container Network Interface (CNI) and network policy implementations
- Experience with proxies and service mesh is a big plus
- Strong knowledge of monitoring tools and practices, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog
- Proficiency in Python, with ability to write efficient, maintainable, and scalable code
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining API services with understanding of RESTful and/or GraphQL API design principles
- Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day work and building agents to reduce toil
- Experience operating CI/CD and its associated best practices appreciated though not essential
Responsibilities
- Build and scale internal platform offerings (compute, storage and networking services) to ensure reliability and performance of applications
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems
- Collaborate with application software engineers to guide their design and ensure it scales for long-term needs
- Act as an agent of change and push boundaries to incrementally improve systems as the company expands globally