Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Digital Assets

Early Warning

Senior SRE improving reliability, observability, and resilience for Early Warning’s U.S. payments infrastructure.

Posted 9/10/2026full-timeSan Francisco • Arizona, California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $106,000 - $156,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps principles, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and continuous improvement. Proficient in leveraging public cloud technologies and implementing reliability measures such as SLIs and SLOs to enhance service performance and operational readiness.

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Software EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringAWS Cloud TechnologiesCI/CD AutomationObservability and Monitoring

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentScriptingDistributed SystemsInfrastructure as CodeIncident ManagementPerformance AnalysisCapacity ManagementResilience TestingDisaster RecoveryAutomation

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformOracle Cloud InfrastructureLinux/UnixContainersOrchestrationMonitoring ToolsLogging ToolsDashboards

Industry Keywords

DevOpsInfrastructure EngineeringCloud/Platform EngineeringOperational ReadinessService Health

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxOracleUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered
Use data, evidence, experimentation, and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions
Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness
Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices
Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning
Reduce operational toil and manual intervention through software, automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices
Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and develop reusable solutions and practices
Own reliability outcomes across multiple services and guide less-experienced engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically 5–8 years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture where applicable, or a comparable technical discipline
Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages
Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability appropriate to the level
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures appropriate to the level
Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills appropriate to the scope of the role
Preferred: hands-on experience with AWS or comparable experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability, monitoring, alerting, and software-delivery automation
Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness
Experience creating reusable automation, tooling, platforms, patterns, or practices that improve engineering effectiveness
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire; position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship
Ability to perform essential functions and physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to work in a normal office environment, primarily sedentary, with extensive computer use and occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching; ability to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible force frequently; visual acuity, dexterity, and communication ability

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health, and dependent care expenses
401(k) retirement plan with 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees
Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
11 paid company holidays
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work