Site Reliability Engineer

Nivelo; New York (NY); Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nivelo is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance its cloud infrastructure and ensure reliable services. The role includes monitoring system performance and collaborating with teams to improve efficiency. Join a mission-driven company focused on reinventing money movement in the payroll sector, with a fully remote work environment and competitive compensation.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Generous Stock Options

Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

Educational Stipend

Fully Remote Work Environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical experience, with 2+ years in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Experience with the AWS stack, including VPCs, ECS, CodeBuild, and IAM.
• Management of SQL/Relational databases.
• Knowledge of PCI or SOC 2 compliance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Scaling, securing, and hardening our infrastructure.
• Monitoring system performance and proactively identifying issues.
• Maintaining SOC 2 compliance.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Problem Solving

Communication

Security Awareness

Operational Reliability

Tools

AWS

SQL/Relational Databases

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer

About Nivelo:

Everyone deserves to be paid reliably.

Nivelo’s mission is to provide safe and instantaneous money movement for everyone. Our ambition is large - disrupting a $20 Trillion infrastructure built 50 years ago. Our impact is even bigger - securing the most common and most important payment for most people in the world - their paycheck. We're reinventing the way businesses and individuals move money.

Nivelo is the integrated payments platform that payroll brands use to move money quickly, digitally and securely to guarantee every dollar is delivered on time.

The company is backed by investors such as FirstMark Capital, Barclays Bank, and Anthemis that have taken countless companies to IPO (think Shopify and Airbnb). Investors also include experienced operators in the payment and risk space, including the COO of Stripe, Founder of Tenable, and senior operators at Chime, Stripe, Alloy, and Justworks.

Want to learn more? Check out this recent interview on the Payrollin Podcast.

About you:

You are:

An Infrastructure Expert: You have experience managing cloud infrastructure at a growing company and have worked with the AWS stack.

Security Focused: You treat security as a top priority.

A Proactive Problem Solver: You don’t wait for instructions—you identify gaps, propose solutions, and take ownership of results.

Flexible: You’re excited to dive in where needed to meet our clients’ needs.

A Clear Communicator: Whether it’s breaking down technical issues for a product manager or communicating incidents during a payroll failure, you keep stakeholders aligned and informed.

Operationally Reliable: You thrive under pressure, stay calm during incidents, and prioritize rapid, effective solutions.

This is not a job for someone who wants to sit in the backseat. If you’re the kind of engineer who thrives on responsibility, ownership, and building something that matters, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

5+ years of technical experience with 2+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, SRE or related role

Experience with the AWS stack, including VPCs, ECS, CodeBuild, and IAM

Experience working with and managing SQL/Relational databases

(bonus) Experience with PCI or SOC 2 compliance

You’ll Be Working On

Scaling, securing and hardening our infrastructure

Monitoring system performance, helping us proactively identify issues and implement solutions

Ensuring our systems are running optimally, keeping costs appropriate for the demands

Helping us maintain SOC 2 compliance

Building and maintaining monitoring, tracing, auditing, testing and reporting frameworks

Collaborating closely with product and the rest of the engineering team to get things done

Why Join Nivelo:

You will:

become an expert in how money moves and your work will become the face of payroll for the United States, defining how money movement for high stakes payments should be experienced.

work with a small team of exceptional, intelligent and kind people

earn a competitive salary while still having the impact you can only have at an early stage company

receive a generous stock option allotment

have health/vision/dental insurance options through Justworks

have access to an educational stipend to continue building your skills and knowledge

work from wherever you work best. Our team is fully remote.

At Nivelo, we are committed to maintaining and celebrating the diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity in our organization.

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