Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Designing and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure for the Spend product line with an accent on reliability, performance, and global availability. Focus on architecting high-risk projects, executing data center migrations, and implementing observability for high-load financial services.

Location: San Francisco

Company

Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 200,000 companies worldwide through proprietary infrastructure.

What you will do

• Architect and implement cloud infrastructure for new services and roadmap initiatives.
• Embed with development teams to drive reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Lead incident response, observability, and automation across critical systems.
• Own team-level SLOs, runbooks, and DevOps performance metrics.
• Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure compliance and resilience.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, observability, and incident response.
• Proven ability to lead SRE strategy for large-scale, cross-functional projects.
• Strong experience supporting production systems with high availability and compliance requirements.
• Ability to work closely with developers and guide reliability best practices.

Nice to have

• Experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry.
• Familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines, or financial data systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Environment emphasizing founder-like energy, real impact, and true ownership.
• Focus on technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and collaborative problem solving.
• Opportunity to tackle complex, high-visibility problems within a high-growth global organization.
• Equal opportunity employer valuing diversity and merit-based growth.