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title: 'Senior Site Reliability Engineer at MeridianLink'
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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer at MeridianLink

- **Company:** MeridianLink
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $104k–$163k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/meridianlink/8211781d-4be8-4cf4-a047-983366e680c4

## Job description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on our cloud engineering team, you'll keep our production environment healthy, secure, and running smoothly. This is an operations-focused role: you'll own the day-to-day administration of our AWS accounts and databases, backup posture across our data stores, and production monitoring and debugging for a fully serverless platform. Your work will span the operational side of the software development life cycle — from deployment to maintenance and updates — always striving for continuous improvement. You'll keep our infrastructure clean, easily deployable, and scalable, creating a stable operating environment for the whole team.

## Responsibilities

- Own day-to-day administration across AWS services, accounts, and access, as well as database administration across PostgreSQL and our other data stores.
- Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues; verify restores regularly and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
- Proactively monitor production — CloudWatch dashboards, metric alarms, log-based metrics, and Slack alerting — addressing operational issues before they impact users.
- Lead production debugging and incident response: build and maintain runbooks, participate in the on-call rotation, and resolve queue and dead-letter-queue failures through retry, redrive, and recovery.
- Continuously refine our infrastructure to ensure it is easily deployable and scalable: keep infrastructure as code (SST/Pulumi) accurate, retire unused infrastructure, and keep cost visible and justified.
- Share your knowledge of production operations with the team, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

- Bachelor's degree and 4-6 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations, with significant responsibility for production systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with an emphasis on serverless services (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, S3).
- Strong database administration experience: PostgreSQL operations, backup and recovery, and query performance; comfort administering other data stores.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript, Python, and bash for production automation and operational tooling.
- Strong understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code (SST, Pulumi, or Terraform).
- Experience with production monitoring and alerting, incident response, and on-call ownership.

## About MeridianLink

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MeridianLink provides a digital lending platform that connects account opening, loan origination, mortgages, HELOCs, credit cards, and more for community financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker not explicitly listed in provided materials – widely known as NYSE: MLNK)
- **Headquarters**: Not explicitly stated in the provided sources (remote-first company operating across the US)
- **Founded**: 1998
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in the provided materials

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial technology (digital lending software)
- **Target customers**: Community banks, credit unions, independent mortgage banks (IMBs), consumer reporting agencies – primarily B2B and enterprise
- **Mission**: “To accelerate and simplify workflows while helping community financial institutions grow, scale, and serve their consumers and communities.”  
- **Vision**: “To be the trusted technology platform that enables community financial institutions to thrive by delivering smarter, connected financial experiences and powering better outcomes for all.”

## Products & Services
- **Consumer Lending Software**: SaaS platform for personal loans, credit cards, and unsecured loan origination with built-in compliance and AI-driven insights.
- **Mortgage Lending Software**: Digital mortgage origination and HELOC solutions designed to close loans faster and grow lending volume.
- **Digital Account Opening**: Fully digital account opening and new deposit account creation.
- **Indirect Lending Software**: Tools to simplify loan servicing and expand lending opportunities, particularly for auto loans.
- **Analytics & AI**: Data-driven insights and intelligent automation to help institutions uncover opportunities and reduce risk.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not provided in the available sources.
- **Key Metric**: Platform processed over 16M+ unsecured loan applications, 8M+ home loan applications, 5M+ new accounts, and 1M+ auto loan applications (as stated on the website).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly mentioned (platform described as “the industry’s most robust partner network”).
- **Growth Signals**: 5M+ new accounts handled in the past year; continuous innovation with AI and automation; fully remote company scaling its team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest connected platform**: Backed by 25+ years of industry expertise and a broad partner marketplace.
- **Built-in compliance**: Compliance embedded into the platform, enabling faster, trusted lending.
- **Human-centric approach**: Focus on helping community institutions maintain personal relationships while adopting modern digital capabilities.
- **AI and data-driven**: Using AI and data to turn insight into action without adding complexity.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous innovation**: Future-ready technology that evolves with consumer and workforce expectations.
- **Intelligent automation**: Smarter workflows to reduce friction and increase efficiency for lenders.
- **Expanding ecosystem**: Growing the partner network and integrating more data and AI capabilities.
- **Remote-first culture**: Operating as a fully remote company to attract talent across the US.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote**: MeridianLink is a remote-first company with a strong emphasis on connection through virtual team activities.
- **Collaborative culture**: Open, collaborative work environment where every idea is valued; leadership is approachable and accessible.
- **Continuous learning**: Job-specific training, monthly soft-skill sessions, leadership classes, and a comprehensive online learning system.
- **Community impact**: Paid volunteer day off; company-sponsored community service projects.
- **Perks**: Casual dress code, celebrations of holidays and milestones, programs supporting financial, physical, and mental health.
- **Engineering culture**: Technical roles may include live coding exercises; emphasis on curiosity, problem-solving, and career growth.

## Sources
1. [meridianlink.com](https://www.meridianlink.com/)
2. [meridianlink.com/careers](https://www.meridianlink.com/careers/)
3. [meridianlink.com/who-we-are](https://www.meridianlink.com/who-we-are/)
4. [meridianlink.com/about-meridianlink](https://www.meridianlink.com/about-meridianlink/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/meridianlink](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/meridianlink)

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