Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Paze

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave (12 weeks)

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking an experienced engineer to help build and maintain scalable application infrastructure with a focus on reliability and automation. You will implement tooling around deployments, disaster recovery, and observability while ensuring security and high performance.

You will work with development teams to apply modern microservice design patterns and contribute to on-call rotation, incident management, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years managing large complex projects in a technical environment.
• Experience in Incident and Problem Management.
• Proven work experience in medium to large-scale enterprise.
• Strong scripting language skills.
• Hands-on with observability solutions.
• Linux systems administration.
• Knowledge of Git and security/encryption protocols.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement software and tools to improve performance, availability, scalability, and latency while meeting security standards.
• Build automation and tooling for deployments, configuration changes and disaster recovery.
• Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems to detect problems.
• Evaluate application capacity and provide stats to product/business teams; plan scalable paths.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot with cross-functional teams.
• Standardize practices across disciplines to improve delivery.
• Collaborate with development teams on lifecycle feedback and microservice design patterns.
• Serve as a technical liaison and provide runbooks to Level 1/2 teams.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Develop repeatable patterns and reusable work across teams.
• Support data/system confidentiality and integrity.

Skills

Incident Management

Problem Management

Linux

Git

Scripting

Observability

Security protocols

CI/CD

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Swarm

Job description

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.

Overall Purpose

To create and maintain the next generation of application infrastructure and to be responsible for reliability, automation and scalability using and the latest best practices.

Essential Functions

• Implement software and tools to improve the performance - availability, scalability, and latency, while delivering end products to customer with the highest efficiency and meeting all security standards.
• Build automation and tooling around application management, such as deployments, configuration changes and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems to proactively detect problems and identify cause.
• Evaluate capacity of the application on a continuous basis to provide stats to the Product/Business teams and recommend an efficient path to scale for future needs.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Implement standards across multiple disciplines, systems and practices to improve the overall application delivery.
• Work directly with application development teams to provide feedback and technical requirements to the software development lifecycle, implementing best-practice microservice design patterns and other modern software development approaches.
• Serve as a technical liaison for the application and provide documents and runbooks to Level 1 and Level 2 teams.
• Participate in 24 X 7 on‑call rotation.
• Be a champion of excellent processes; take the initiative in developing repeatable patterns and standard, re‑usable work across teams.
• Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and/or Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of related experience managing large complex projects in a technical or software development environment inclusive of post‑graduate degree
• Demonstrated experience in effective Incident and Problem Management
• Proven related work experience in a medium to large scale enterprise.
• Strong understanding of scripting languages
• Hands on experience implementing and using modern Observability solutions.
• Linux systems administration
• Good knowledge of Git
• Experienced with security and encryption protocols.
• Comfortable with facilitating collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.
• Excellent oral and written communication and people skills.
• High level of customer responsiveness, excellent documentation and communication skills and attention to detail.
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Java, ruby, python, JavaScript and GO
• Hands‑on experience in supporting applications in a 24X7 customer‑facing production environment.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD workflows
• Strong understanding and hands‑on experience on TCP/UDP/IP protocols
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

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.

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.

And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can 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.