This role pays more than
76%
of similar roles. Most pay
$150,537–$215,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$216k
versus about
$183k
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
64 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$143,500–$183,000
across 60 roles with salary data.
Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Paze
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins the team to apply software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. This role involves partnering with Software Engineering teams to ensure observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are integrated throughout the service lifecycle. You will build and improve CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and monitoring tools while managing incident response and capacity management. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, Linux/Unix environments, and public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP. Key technical requirements include proficiency in modern programming languages for scripting, experience with containers, and the ability to define SLIs and SLOs. This position addresses critical production challenges within a payment system infrastructure to ensure high availability and reduce operational toil through automated engineering practices.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 60 postings across 17 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.
Improve observability through advanced 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 high-quality 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, or related technical disciplines.
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, preferably AWS.
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 (preferred).
Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems (preferred).
Site Reliability Engineering
Linux
Windows Server
Python
Bash
PowerShell
Ansible
Chef
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
infrastructure-as-code
Monitoring
Logging
Observability
Capacity Planning
incident-management
Patching
Citrix
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