Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Paze

Early Warning Services LLC; Chicago (IL); Híbrido; USD 106.000 - 156.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan with company‑s

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Descripción de la vacante

Early Warning Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, observability, and operational health of production services. The role partners with Software Engineering and other technology teams to ensure reliability, observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are engineered into systems throughout their lifecycle.

The role independently identifies systemic reliability risks, owns broader reliability outcomes, and influences

Formación

• Typically 5-8 years of relevant professional experience in Software/SRE/DevOps roles.
• Experience with software development or scripting using modern programming languages.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and Linux/Unix
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability and incident management.

Responsabilidades

• Use software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.
• Identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions using data and analysis.
• Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health metrics.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and dashboards.
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, automation, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Identify recurring production issues and translate experience into code and tooling improvements.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering to incorporate reliability throughout the development lifecycle.
• Participate in on-call rotation and post-incident learning to reduce toil.

Conocimientos

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Observability

Analytical skills

Communication

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Herramientas

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

CI/CD

Descripción del empleo

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle, Paze, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Role Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer applies software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. The role partners with Software Engineering and other technology teams to ensure reliability, observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are engineered into systems throughout their lifecycle.

The role independently identifies systemic reliability risks, owns broader reliability outcomes, and influences engineering decisions across multiple services.

Core Responsibilities

• Use software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles and practices to continually improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.

• Use data, evidence, experimentation, and rigorous engineering analysis appropriate to the level to identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions.

• Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures appropriate to the scope of responsibility.

• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation.

• Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness.

• Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices.

• Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.

• Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning appropriate to the level.

• Participates in an on-call rotation for supported production services and improves the effectiveness and sustainability of on-call through automation, observability, runbooks, incident learning and elimination of recurring operational toil.

• Reduce operational toil and unnecessary manual intervention through software, automation, reusable patterns, and better engineering practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Typically 5-8 years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture where applicable, or a comparable technical discipline.

• Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages.

• Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability appropriate to the level.

• Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures appropriate to the level.

• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills appropriate to the scope of the role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS is preferred, or comparable experience with another major cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

• Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems.

• Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability, monitoring, alerting, and software-delivery automation.

• Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness appropriate to the level.

• Experience creating reusable automation, tooling, platforms, patterns, or practices that improve engineering effectiveness.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

The base pay scale for this position in:
Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $106,000 - $130,000.
San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $128,000 - $156,000.
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness

• Healthcare Coverage-Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan-Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

• Paid Time Off -Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

• Maven Family Planning - provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

AndSOmuch more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure tocheck our Benefits page herefor the latest. Ourteamcan share more during the interview process!

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Early Warning Services, LLC ("Early Warning") considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.