Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE

Govserviceshub; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology startup is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the establishment of SRE practices and ensure reliability and performance of critical systems. This remote position is ideal for individuals who bring expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation. The role offers the opportunity to build and own the entire SRE practice within a fast-paced, innovative environment focused on consumer finance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading incident response and postmortem processes for high-availability production systems.
• Deep expertise in designing highly available architectures such as EC2 and Fargate.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and develop sustainable on-call practices.
• Build and maintain self-service observability tools.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation.

Skills

Incident response

High availability architectures

AWS cloud infrastructure

CI/CD automation

Observability and monitoring stacks

Scripting/programming in Python

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

New York, United States | Posted on 11/13/2025

Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Location: Remote

AboutJanuary

AtJanuary, we’re transforming the lives of borrowers by bringing humanity to consumer finance. Our data-driven products empower financial institutions to streamline collections and help borrowers regain financial stability and control over their lives. We’re not just expanding access to credit — we’re restoring dignity and paving the way for millions to achieve financial freedom.

Aboutthe Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will establish SRE practices from the ground up — ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as January scales from thousands to millions of borrowers. You’ll architect resilient infrastructure, design modern observability solutions, and build sustainable on-call processes that evolve with our rapid growth.

Your work will directly address scaling challenges including database optimization, async workflow infrastructure, and data pipeline reliability — enabling the engineering team to ship confidently and efficiently.

KeyResponsibilities

• Lead incident response and develop sustainable on-call practices, including runbooks, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR.
• Build and maintain self-service observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK) for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation for consistent, secure AWS environments.
• Partner with development teams to architect resilient, scalable infrastructure for critical components like databases, networking, async workflows, and data pipelines.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Drive best practices in reliability and performance early in the design phase to future-proof January’s systems.

RequiredSkills & Experience

• Proven experience leading incident response and postmortem processes for high-availability production systems.
• Deep expertise in designing highly available architectures (EC2, Fargate, auto-scaling, health checks, graceful degradation).
• Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or equivalent tools.
• Proficiency in observability and monitoring stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK).
• Solid scripting/programming skills in Python (for automation, tooling, and debugging).
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering and platform teams.

Requirements

• Cloud: AWS
• IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Languages: Python
• Infrastructure: EC2, Fargate

AdditionalDetails

• Remote role (NYC-based preferred for hybrid collaboration).
• Opportunity to build and own the entire SRE practice for a growing FinTech startup.
• Fast-paced, innovative environment working on AI-forward consumer finance products.