Staff SRE: AI‑Driven Reliability Leader

WEX Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

WEX Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability strategy across a diverse platform.

You will architect systems for availability, scale, and observability while mentoring engineers and guiding AI-enabled automation initiatives. You will drive incident management, capacity planning, and cost optimization, collaborating with cross-functional teams to reduce toil and improve performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in large-scale system reliability.
• Proven expertise in system architecture, cloud platforms, and automation frameworks.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, service meshes, and distributed tracing.
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms (Grafana, ELK, Splunk).

Responsibilities

• Architect and oversee mission-critical systems with focus on availability and scalability.
• Define and enforce SRE practices and operational standards.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve reliability, performance and efficiency at scale.
• Mentor engineers on production-grade AI-enabled reliability solutions.

Skills

Large-scale reliability

Kubernetes

Service meshes

Distributed tracing

Incident management

AI/agent tooling

Cloud platforms

Automation frameworks

Observability

Tools

Grafana

ELK stack

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

Prometheus

Job description

WEX Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability strategy across a diverse platform.

You will architect systems for availability, scale, and observability while mentoring engineers and guiding AI-enabled automation initiatives. You will drive incident management, capacity planning, and cost optimization, collaborating with cross-functional teams to reduce toil and improve performance.