Senior SRE, Software Engineering (AWS / Scaling Infrastructure)

PulseRise Technologies; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

PulseRise Technologies is seeking two Senior Site Reliability Engineers to build and scale reliability foundations for a rapidly growing fintech platform. This high-impact role focuses on architecting resilient infrastructure and ensuring teams can ship quickly without compromising reliability.

Candidates should have deep AWS expertise and strong infrastructure-as-code experience. This position is hybrid and ideal for engineers thriving in fast-scaling environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience or 7+ years in software engineering with an infrastructure focus.
• Proven experience in leading incident response for high-availability production systems.
• Strong knowledge of scalable system design and production reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and establish sustainable on-call processes.
• Architect highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Implement observability tooling and improve CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

AWS expertise

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability solutions

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

We are looking for two Senior Site Reliability Engineers to build and scale reliability foundations for a rapidly growing fintech platform. This role focuses on architecting resilient infrastructure, strengthening observability, and establishing sustainable SRE practices as systems scale from thousands to millions of users. You will lead incident response, design highly available cloud architectures, and ensure engineering teams can ship quickly without compromising reliability. The position requires deep AWS expertise, strong infrastructure‑as‑code experience, and a proactive reliability mindset. You will partner closely with feature teams to design scalable databases, async workflows, and data pipelines. This is a high‑impact hybrid role based in NYC for engineers who thrive in fast‑scaling environments.

Details

Location: NYC (Hybrid)

Work Model: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time

Industry: Financial Technology

Start Date: ASAP

Key Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and establish sustainable on‑call processes
• Create comprehensive runbooks and foster blameless postmortem culture
• Architect highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Design auto‑scaling, health checks, and graceful degradation strategies
• Implement and evangelize modern observability tooling (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
• Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into feature design
• Improve database performance, async workflows, and data pipeline reliability
• Reduce MTTR through systematic process and tooling improvements

Requirements

• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience OR 7+ years of software engineering with strong infrastructure focus
• Proven experience leading incident response for high‑availability production systems
• Strong AWS expertise (EC2, Fargate, networking, scaling strategies)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
• Hands‑on experience implementing observability solutions (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, etc.)
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Strong knowledge of scalable system design and production reliability practices
• Excellent documentation and cross‑team communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling fintech or regulated systems
• Experience working in high‑performance engineering cultures
• Evidence of entrepreneurial or high‑initiative background
• Experience designing async workflow infrastructure or high‑scale data pipelines

Interview Process

1. Recruiter Screen
2. Hiring Manager Screen
3. Case Study / Panel Interview
4. Onsite Interviews
5. Culture / CEO Interview
6. Offer