SRE [Processing Core Team]

Plata Card; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible work from offices or remote

Healthcare Coverage

Education Budget

Wellness Budget

Vacation Policy

Job summary

Plata Card is seeking an SRE to join the Processing Core team, focusing on reliability and scalability of the core payments platform. You will work on card issuance and management integrations, building resilient services and efficient deployment pipelines.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement containerized solutions with Docker and Kubernetes, and contribute to CI/CD with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years in a similar role.
• Experience with multi-component architectures and fault tolerance.
• Hands-on with containers, monitoring, and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and availability of payments processing solutions.
• Contribute to design, implementation and maintenance with focus on scalability.
• Monitor service metrics and collaborate with DevOps engineers.
• Write and maintain deployment scripts, configs, helm charts and CI/CD jobs.
• Address infrastructure issues and resolve product failures.
• Participate in incident investigations to identify root causes.
• Maintain technical documentation.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

We are looking for a SRE to join our Processing Core team.

The Processing Core team is responsible for building and maintaining the core platform that powers our credit card products. We develop solutions for card issuance and management, tariff configuration, transaction processing, and integrations with global payment networks, ensuring the platform remains reliable, scalable, and efficient.

As a SRE , you will contribute to the development and evolution of our core processing platform, working on business-critical systems that support the entire card lifecycle. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build reliable and scalable solutions, improve existing processes, and ensure seamless interactions with global payment networks.

Challenges that await you:

• Managing the reliability and availability of payments processing solutions, ensuring the performance of applications
• Assisting in the design, implementation, and maintenance of payments processing solutions with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Monitoring technological metrics of services and collaborating with DevOps engineers
• Writing and maintaining deployment scripts, configs, helm charts and CI/CD jobs
• Addressing infrastructure issues and resolving product failures
• Participating in incident investigations to identify and eliminate root causes
• Maintaining technical documentation

What makes you a great fit:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar position
• Understanding of the principles of multi-component system architecture and ability to apply them in practice (load balancing, ensuring fault tolerance, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
• Familiarity with scripting languages like Python, Bash for automation tasks
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
• Open mind for problem-solving and good troubleshooting skills
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• B1 or higher English level for effective communication with an international team

Your bonus skills:

• Work experience with vendor solutions
• Experience working withpayment or fintech systems
• Exposure tocloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Background inperformance tuning, database reliability

Our ways of working:

• Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions
• Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication
• Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community
• Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together
• High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances

Our benefits:

• Relocation support to one of our hubs - Cyprus, Georgia, Serbia, or Kazakhstan - with assistance for the employee and their family
• Flexible work from one of our offices or remote
• Healthcare Coverage
• Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications
• Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursements
• Vacation Policy: Annual leave and paid sick leave as per applicable policies