Senior SRE: Fintech Reliability & Scalability, Remote

Priority Commerce; United States; On-site; USD 129,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

HSA and FSA options

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Lyra Health mental health support

Family planning and women’s health

Gym membership reimbursement

Virtual wellness programs

Employee discount programs

Job summary

Priority Commerce is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a remote role in the US. You will ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our fintech platform, partnering with product and infrastructure teams to keep services observable and resilient.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in software or systems engineering, with 3+ years in SRE, strong cloud/CI-CD/microservices skills, and experience in regulated fintech contexts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or systems engineering experience, with 3+ years in SRE or reliability roles.
• Experience leading reliability initiatives.
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), CI/CD, and microservices.
• Deep expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Strong communication skills across engineering and business stakeholders.
• Preferred: payments/fintech experience, event-driven architectures, mentoring, and cloud certifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the resolution of complex incidents within your domain and conduct retrospectives to drive reliability improvements.
• Own cross-cutting platform concerns such as observability, monitoring, alerting, performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Partner with engineering leadership and product teams to embed reliability best practices into design, planning, and delivery.
• Automate detection, resolution, and recovery for recurring production issues, reducing toil and increasing delivery velocity.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and practices to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and performance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

CI/CD

Observability/Monitoring

Incident management

Databases (relational & non-relational

Communication

Job description

Priority Commerce is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a remote role in the US. You will ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our fintech platform, partnering with product and infrastructure teams to keep services observable and resilient.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in software or systems engineering, with 3+ years in SRE, strong cloud/CI-CD/microservices skills, and experience in regulated fintech contexts.