AI‑Powered SRE Architect—Global Reliability Strategy

WEX, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,600 - 250,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

WEX, Inc. seeks an experienced SRE leader to shape reliability standards and guardrails used across all lines of business.

You will drive AI-powered reliability initiatives and scale adoption across the software lifecycle, from design to operations. This central role sits at the heart of WEX engineering, partnering with platform teams and LOB architects to ensure availability, performance, and transactional integrity in mission-critical systems while guiding continuous improvement and measurable

Qualifications

• 12+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on delivery of mission-critical systems at scale.
• Experience with highly available, low-latency financial-style systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce enterprise SRE standards and guardrails across all LOBs.
• Lead AI-powered reliability strategy and adoption of SRE agents.
• Architect resilient systems with built-in failover, telemetry, and SLO/SLI governance.
• Own production readiness criteria and incident metrics across the enterprise.

Skills

SRE leadership

Observability

Incident management

Cloud architecture

AI in reliability

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Cross-LOB governance

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

WEX, Inc. seeks an experienced SRE leader to shape reliability standards and guardrails used across all lines of business.

You will drive AI-powered reliability initiatives and scale adoption across the software lifecycle, from design to operations. This central role sits at the heart of WEX engineering, partnering with platform teams and LOB architects to ensure availability, performance, and transactional integrity in mission-critical systems while guiding continuous improvement and measurable