Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Paymentology; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Paymentology is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliable software and cloud infrastructure for global payments. The role focuses on improving service health, observability, and automation while working with cross-functional engineering teams across APAC.

This remote position emphasizes ownership, learning, and collaboration. You will be part of a distributed team with strong emphasis on reliability, security, and scalable deployments, contributing to the resilience

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering or related role.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, distributed systems, and service architecture.
• Experience writing production code in Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability, CI/CD, automation, and IaC.
• Degree in CS/IT or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable software, cloud infrastructure, and reusable automation.
• Own reliability improvements end-to-end, from investigation and design through delivery and follow-up.
• Identify recurring operational problems and deliver durable solutions that improve reliability and performance.
• Contribute to design and code reviews, raising reliability and security risks early.
• Improve metrics, logs, traces, alerts, deployment safeguards, and recovery automation.
• Partner with product engineering teams to improve service health and adopt safe self-service capabilities.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for business-critical services and lead technical responses.

Skills

SRE experience

Cloud networking

Python/Go/Java

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability

CI/CD

Security basics

Education

CS/IT degree

Tools

AWS

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

Job description

Unstoppable starts with people. The future of payments is being built today, and at Paymentology , we are looking for people who want to help shape it. We power card issuing for leading banks, fintechs and digital brands across the globe, and as we continue to grow, we are looking for curious, ambitious people who thrive on solving complex challenges, embrace innovation and want to make a tangible impact at global scale.

Our Engineering culture values autonomy, excellence, ownership, and curiosity. We encourage engineers to lead solutions end-to-end, mentor others, and continuously improve how we build and operate software. If you’re excited by solving complex global payments challenges and enjoy working with smart, kind, mission-driven people, this is the place for you.

What you get to do

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in the APAC region to build and operate the software, automation, and infrastructure that keep our global payments services reliable, scalable, observable, and resilient. You’ll own complex reliability improvements in your domain, guide product teams, and turn production experience into lasting engineering improvements.

• Design, build, and operate reliable software, cloud infrastructure, and reusable automation.

• Own reliability improvements end-to-end, from investigation and design through delivery and follow-up.

• Identify recurring operational problems and deliver durable solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and performance.

• Contribute to design and code reviews, raising reliability, security, and operability risks early.

• Improve metrics, logs, traces, alerts, deployment safeguards, and recovery automation.

• Partner with product engineering teams to improve service health and adopt safe self-service capabilities.

• Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation for business-critical services and lead technical response in your area.

• Lead or contribute to incident reviews and complete follow-up actions that reduce recurrence and impact.

• Share knowledge, improve runbooks, and mentor engineers in reliability practices.

• Automate client onboarding, deployments, and disaster recovery execution

Requirements: Experience

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a closely related role.

• Strong understanding of cloud networking, distributed systems, and service architecture.

• Experience writing tested, maintainable production code in Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Scala, or a comparable language.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.

• Experience with observability, CI/CD, production automation, and infrastructure as code.

• Understanding of cloud security and identity management, including AWS IAM and Active Directory.

• Experience applying SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to assess service health and guide engineering priorities.

• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and turn operational problems into maintainable software or automation.

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Most importantly, a desire to learn, grow, and collaborate with a thoughtful engineering team.

What you can look forward to

• Remote role with a distributed team across multiple time zones but you will be covering APAC primarily.

• Work closely with engineering teams on services that support global payments.

• Meaningful ownership of reliability improvements from discovery through production.

• Support for your ongoing career growth and development.

• A diverse, collaborative, mission-driven engineering culture.

At Paymentology , we believe that making a difference starts with the people behind the work. You will be part of a diverse, global team of Paymentologists who are united by a shared mission to advance the world through payments.
This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful work, collaborate across markets and functions, and help shape the future of a business with global reach and real impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on any unlawful ground, including race, colour, ethnicity, sex, gender, pregnancy, marital status, family responsibility, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, language or HIV status.

Paymentology will never request any form of payment from applicants at any stage of our recruitment process, including for applications, interviews, training or job placements. If anyone asks you for money while claiming to act on behalf of Paymentology, please treat this as fraudulent and do not make any payment. All legitimate Paymentology vacancies are advertised via our official careers page , and our recruitment emails are sent only from official Paymentology domains.