Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $104,148 – $177,600

Company

Financial SaaS provider focusing on secure and performant infrastructure for the fintech industry.

What you will do

• Design and maintain SLOs and SLIs across critical systems to ensure consistent performance targets.
• Lead observability strategy by designing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing architectures.
• Architect and deploy scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Develop Python-based automation and AIOps capabilities to reduce toil and enable self-healing systems.
• Drive reliability through load testing, chaos engineering, and failure scenario analysis.
• Partner with backend teams on architecture reviews and implement defense-in-depth security for a regulated environment.

Requirements

• Must be based in the US.
• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering with production system responsibility.
• Expert-level experience with AWS or Azure, including compute, networking, and storage.
• Deep expertise in observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Proficiency in Python and scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell) for production automation.
• Proven track record of incident management and on-call ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or banking industries with knowledge of SOC 2 or PCI-DSS.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Background in chaos engineering using tools like Gremlin.
• Contributions to open-source observability or infrastructure projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability).
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible paid time off and paid holidays.
• Fully remote work arrangement.