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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.
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The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins the technology team to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. This role applies software engineering and systems engineering practices to ensure observability, recoverability, and performance are engineered into systems throughout their lifecycle. You will use data and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks, define SLIs and SLOs, and drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and incident response. The position requires expertise in modern programming languages, Linux/Unix, networking, and public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. You will solve complex technical problems by reducing operational toil through automation and reusable patterns, ultimately establishing enterprise-level technical direction for critical production systems and multiplying the capability of the broader engineering organization.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 16 companies.
Apply software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational health of production services.
Use data and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks and guide technical decisions.
Define and implement service-health measures including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Improve system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and incident response.
Translate recurring production issues into improvements in code, architecture, and engineering practices.
Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and blameless post-incident learning for critical production issues.
Reduce operational toil by creating reusable automation, tooling, and software patterns.
What we're looking for
Must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
Typically 15+ years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, 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.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Hands-on experience with AWS is preferred, or comparable experience with another major cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) (preferred).
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