Junior Site Reliability Engineer — Build Resilient Systems

Early Warning; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan with Match

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning

Job summary

Early Warning, a leader in payments protection, seeks an entry-level Site Reliability Engineer I to improve reliability, observability, and operational health of production services. You will collaborate with Software Engineering to apply DevOps practices across the lifecycle and learn to drive reliability improvements.

The role focuses on gaining breadth of experience, automating operational tasks, and contributing to resilient, scalable systems within a hybrid work model in the United States.

Qualifications

• Typically 0–2 years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, SRE, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related technical discipline.
• Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages.
• Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with Linux/Unix and modern application architectures.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Use software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.
• Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, IaC, automation, and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead blameless post-incident learning.

Skills

Software Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Distributed Systems

Analytical & Problem-Solving

Communication & Collaboration

Scripting/Programming

On-call/Incident Response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Linux/Unix

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring/Observability

Job description

Early Warning, a leader in payments protection, seeks an entry-level Site Reliability Engineer I to improve reliability, observability, and operational health of production services. You will collaborate with Software Engineering to apply DevOps practices across the lifecycle and learn to drive reliability improvements.

The role focuses on gaining breadth of experience, automating operational tasks, and contributing to resilient, scalable systems within a hybrid work model in the United States.