Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

FreedomPay; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Prescription coverage

Dental and vision coverage

Life Insurance

Retirement plans with company match

Commission sharing plan

Flexible hybrid working environment

Parental and other leave programs

Job summary

FreedomPay is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the highest availability for our global payment platform. The role emphasizes AI-enabled automation, incident response, and proactive reliability across a hybrid Philadelphia-based team.

You will work with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Azure AI services to automate infrastructure code, build repeatable workflows, and improve observability.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years in highly available, high-throughput web environments.
• Proven automation-focused mindset and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Participate in engineering on-call rotation and provide after-hours support for production issues.
• Hybrid Philadelphia-area role with remote arrangements possible for exceptional candidates; occasional travel to Philadelphia.
• Lead AI-enabled automation initiatives to reduce toil, speed up MTTR, and improve platform reliability.
• Develop prompts, agents, and integrations connecting monitoring, ticketing, and remediation systems.

Skills

APM / AI-driven observability

AI tooling integration

Scripting: PowerShell / Python

SQL / T-SQL

Networking fundamentals

Container orchestration / Azure / VMW

Application development processes

Dynatrace / other APM tools

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Azure

SQL Server

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.

FreedomPay is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure the highest possible availability and resiliency of a rapidly growing global payment platform. This full-time salaried position builds on a strong foundation of observability, incident response, and support experience across the development lifecycle — and pushes it forward with AI-driven operations and automation at its core. The right candidate finds real satisfaction in eliminating manual toil, treats every recurring task as an automation opportunity, and is eager to apply modern AI tooling to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster than ever before.

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.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

• medical
• prescription
• dental and vision coverage
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Plans with company match
• commission sharing plan
• flexible hybrid working environment
• 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.