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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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JOB TITLE: Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Paze
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins the 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 architectures, specifically AWS. You will solve complex production issues by creating reusable automation and tooling to reduce operational toil. This role provides enterprise-level technical leadership to manage systemic risks and improve engineering practices across the organization's distributed systems and production software.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 17 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 SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures.
Improve 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 through software, automation, and the creation of reusable patterns.
What we're looking for
Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
Must have 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.
Must have experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages.
Must have experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability.
Must have experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, including infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures.
Must demonstrate analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or OCI is preferred.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field is preferred.
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