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$202k
versus about
$187k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Early Warning Services
Early Warning Services is a fintech company that operates the Zelle person-to-person payments network, the Paze digital checkout wallet, and Certos fraud prevention and identity risk solutions for financial institutions.
Early Warning Services currently has
78 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$147,500–$180,500
across 40 roles with salary data.
The Director, Site Reliability Engineering leads the SRE function for an assigned product, platform, pillar, or business domain. This leader is accountable for the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of business-critical production services. Key responsibilities include establishing Service Level Indicators and Objectives, managing error budgets, and championing automation to reduce operational toil. The role requires developing engineering talent, managing incident response, and ensuring production readiness for highly available distributed systems. The candidate must possess technical depth to develop code and contribute to engineering solutions while partnering with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams. Core competencies include SRE practices, observability engineering, and capacity planning. This role solves critical reliability risks within a highly regulated financial services environment, ensuring that payment systems remain resilient, secure, and performant for millions of consumers.
Establish and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) aligned with business outcomes.
Identify and prioritize reliability risks using production data, error budgets, and failure analysis.
Develop and maintain reusable software, tooling, and automation to improve scalability and reduce manual toil.
Drive observability by establishing requirements for metrics, logs, traces, and actionable alerting.
Lead disciplined incident response, service restoration, and blameless post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements.
Ensure production readiness by addressing systemic failure modes, capacity constraints, and recovery gaps.
Build and develop high-performing SRE teams while providing hands-on technical leadership and code contributions.
Translate business priorities into a multi-quarter reliability roadmap and measurable engineering outcomes.
What we're looking for
Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States for any employer.
Typically 12+ years of relevant software engineering, site reliability engineering, production engineering, platform engineering, or closely related experience.
5+ years of people leadership experience leading engineering teams and developing managers or senior technical leaders.
Experience operating highly available, business-critical distributed systems and leading reliability improvements across a major product or platform.
Strong understanding of SRE practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, incident management, automation, capacity, resilience, and production readiness.
Demonstrated hands-on technical capability to develop code, contribute to automation, and work directly with engineers.
Ability to communicate technical risk, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly to engineering, product, and senior business stakeholders.
Experience in payments, financial services, or other highly regulated environments (preferred).
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