This role pays more than
62%
of similar roles. Most pay
$147,075–$215,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$202k
versus about
$181k
for comparable roles.
Based on 238 similar postings.
Employer
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
55 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$132,000–$165,000
across 53 roles with salary data.
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins a team focused on enhancing the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services within the financial payment systems domain. This role involves applying software engineering and systems engineering practices to ensure observability, recoverability, and performance are integrated throughout the service lifecycle. The individual will build and improve CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and monitoring tools while managing incident response and capacity planning. Key technical requirements include proficiency in modern programming languages for scripting, experience with distributed systems, and expertise in public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP. Core competencies include Linux/Unix environments, networking, and the development of reusable patterns to reduce operational toil. The role solves critical reliability risks by translating production experiences into improved architecture, tooling, and engineering practices across the organization.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 58 postings across 16 companies.
Apply software engineering and automation principles to improve service reliability, scalability, and operational health.
Use data and rigorous analysis to identify reliability risks and guide technical decision-making.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other metrics to monitor service health.
Enhance observability through improved logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment practices.
Translate recurring production issues into improvements in code, architecture, and engineering tools.
Lead incident response efforts and conduct blameless post-incident learning to improve system resilience.
Reduce operational toil by creating reusable automation patterns and improving engineering practices.
What we're looking for
Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
Minimum 15 years of relevant professional experience in SRE, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Architecture.
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.
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, including infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures.
Hands-on experience with AWS is preferred, or comparable experience with other major cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or OCI (preferred).
Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Python
Go
Java
Docker
Kubernetes
Microservices
Kafka
SQS
JMS
Oracle
Dynamo DB
Aurora
Redis
Memcached
Linux
CI/CD
Git
Chef
Maven
Jenkins
AWS
Ruby
JavaScript