Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

FreedomPay; Select (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Prescription coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Life Insurance

Retirement match

Hybrid work

Job summary

FreedomPay is seeking a Senior SRE/AI Platform Engineer to drive automation, observability, and self-healing systems across a 24/7 payment platform. You will apply AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil, speed incident response, and codify remediation with runbooks.

Join a global, hybrid team with strong security obligations and PCI considerations. The role blends hands-on engineering, on-call responsibilities, and collaboration across regions.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent or relevant experience.
• 5+ years in high-availability web environments.
• Strong automation mindset with a focus on toil reduction.
• Excellent communication and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain understanding of the platform and stack.
• Implement observability strategies and metrics across products.
• Identify automation opportunities and apply AI-assisted tooling.
• Design, build, and maintain automated remediation and self-healing workflows.
• Leverage AI/ML-driven observability to improve detection and MTTR.
• Use AI-assisted analysis for root-cause investigation and runbooks.
• Handle escalations and collaborate to determine root causes.
• Automate incident response documentation and workflows.
• Assist with troubleshooting failed scheduled jobs and data concerns.
• Champion secure AI tooling adoption across SRE team.

Skills

Dynatrace

Datadog

New Relic

PowerShell

Python

SQL

Networking basics

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Anthropic Claude

OpenAI Codex

Azure Foundry

Azure SRE Agent

Job description

The FreedomPay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services. FreedomPay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world‑class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point‑to‑Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America. FreedomPay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in‑store, online and on‑mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale. FreedomPay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.

About the Role

You’ll join a team of SREs who work closely with other teams of world‑class engineers to tenaciously and creatively solve problems and reduce manual toil wherever possible. We expect AI and automation to be a force multiplier in everything you do — from accelerating root‑cause analysis and enriching alerts, to generating runbooks and codifying remediation so that the platform increasingly heals itself. Successful candidates are heavily results‑driven, bring well‑established expertise across both traditional and bleeding‑edge technology, and have a strong desire to continuously grow and improve themselves and our platform. This is a global operation spanning multiple regions and time zones, and the role demands the flexibility and commitment that a 24/7 payment platform requires.

• This position participates in an engineering on‑call rotation and provides after‑hours support for production issue escalations on a rotational basis.
• This position is based in the Philadelphia area with a hybrid schedule. Remote arrangements may be considered for exceptional candidates, with occasional travel to Philadelphia required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the platform and custom application stack.
• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve observability strategies and metrics that ensure complete system health for numerous complex products throughout all stages of the development lifecycle, up to and including production.
• Continuously identify automation opportunities and follow through to successful implementation, applying AI‑assisted tooling to accelerate development and reduce manual effort.
• Design, build, and maintain automated remediation and self‑healing workflows that detect, triage, and resolve common failure modes with minimal human intervention.
• Leverage AI/ML‑driven observability — anomaly detection, alert correlation, and intelligent noise reduction — to surface issues earlier and shorten time to detection.
• Use AI‑assisted analysis to accelerate root‑cause investigation, enrich incident context, and generate first‑draft postmortems and runbooks for human review.
• Handle escalations and collaborate effectively with other team members to quickly determine the root cause of any type of service degradation.
• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve incident response procedures and other operational documentation, automating documentation generation and upkeep wherever practical.
• Assist with troubleshooting and remediation of failed scheduled jobs and data‑related concerns.
• Champion responsible, secure adoption of AI tooling across the SRE function — sharing patterns, prompts, and automations that raise the productivity of the whole team

AI Enablement & Automation

AI and automation are central to how this team operates. We are looking for someone who will not only use these tools but help define how the SRE function applies them. In this role you will:

• Apply AI‑assisted development and operations tools — including Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (Codex), and Azure AI services (Foundry, Azure SRE Agent) and the agentic workflows built on them — to write, review, and accelerate automation and infrastructure code.
• Build and integrate automation that turns repetitive operational work into codified, repeatable, and self‑service workflows.
• Use AIOps and ML‑driven observability capabilities within the APM stack for anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and alert correlation.
• Develop and refine prompts, agents, and integrations that connect monitoring, ticketing, and remediation systems into faster end‑to‑end response loops.
• Evaluate emerging AI tooling for reliability and operations use cases, and advocate for adoption where it delivers measurable improvements in toil reduction, MTTR, or availability.
• Ensure all AI and automation usage adheres to FreedomPay’s security, privacy, and PCI obligations — keeping sensitive data appropriately protected and human review in place for high‑impact actions.

Required Background and Experience

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on technical experience in highly available, high‑throughput, web‑based technology environments.
• Demonstrated history of self‑directed learning — someone who independently seeks out knowledge, builds new skills without being told to, and doesn’t wait for formal training to close gaps.
• Next‑level problem‑solving abilities and a strong bias toward practical, proven solutions.
• A track record of identifying and eliminating manual toil through automation.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a strong sense of ownership and service.

Required Technical Skills

• Expert‑level proficiency in an enterprise APM platform and its AI/ML‑driven (AIOps) capabilities; Dynatrace experience strongly preferred, though deep expertise in comparable tools such as Datadog or New Relic where readily transferable.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development and automation tools — such as Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (Codex), and Azure AI services (Foundry, Azure SRE Agent) — and a demonstrated ability to apply them to real operational and engineering work.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation — PowerShell and/or Python — to build tooling and remediation workflows.
• Strong SQL / T‑SQL skills.
• Solid understanding of core networking concepts: DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, and TCP/IP routing and switching.
• Working knowledge of modern technology infrastructure including container orchestration, IaaS/PaaS cloud services, Azure, and VMware.
• Working knowledge of application development processes.

Preferred Technical Skills and Experience

• Proven track record of successfully implementing SLI/SLOs and fostering their adoption across an organization.
• Experience implementing enterprise incident management practices.
• Experience building AIOps or ML‑driven automation into production observability and incident response.
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and broader container orchestration experience.
• Windows Server (IIS) administration.
• PagerDuty Process Automation (formerly Rundeck) or comparable runbook automation platforms.
• Comprehensive experience supporting real‑time transaction processing applications.
• PCI policies and best practices.

Additional Experience, a Plus

• AI/ML model deployment, evaluation, or operations (MLOps).
• Documentation automation and self‑service tooling / service catalog implementation.
• Experience integrating QA test automation into CI/CD pipelines.

As the fastest growing commerce company in the industry, we offer the opportunity for tremendous upward mobility within the company as well as development and professional growth opportunities. FreedomPay’s fulltime roles provide exceptional benefits including medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, Life Insurance, Retirement Plans with company match, commission sharing plan, flexible hybrid working environment, and great parental and other leave programs. All positions must be able to successfully pass a background check as well as a credit check. FreedomPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.