Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Fiserv

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$160,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
13 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $200k
$131k most similar roles pay here $252k

This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$213,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $200k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 similar postings.

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About Fiserv

Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, providing core banking platforms, payment processing, digital banking, and merchant acquiring solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

Fiserv currently has 87 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $115,000–$192,000 across 56 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will join a global team to operate financial platforms at scale within cloud-native environments. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining automation to eliminate manual tasks, enhancing monitoring and alerting systems, and leading incident response activities including root cause analysis. Your daily work involves collaborating with stakeholders to define SLIs and SLOs, managing error budgets, forecasting capacity needs, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure performance. The role requires proficiency in shell scripting, Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, HAProxy, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. You will apply these skills to maintain high availability for financial services platforms. Preferred technical skills include programming in Python, Go, or Java while navigating highly regulated environments.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain automation to eliminate manual operational tasks like runbooks and deployment pipelines.
  • Operate and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure service observability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response activities including root cause analysis.
  • Define SLIs and SLOs with stakeholders while managing error budgets for reliability goals.
  • Forecast capacity needs and contribute to resource planning for performance and cost-efficiency.
  • Troubleshoot production issues by performing deep-dive analysis to isolate and fix root causes.
  • Drive platform hardening through runbook improvements, automation, and best-practice adoption.

What we're looking for

  • Solid practical experience in site reliability, operations, or DevOps at a mid-to-senior level.
  • Strong shell scripting skills and a foundation in programming concepts.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud workloads, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
  • Proven experience with containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes.
  • Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
  • In-depth understanding of HTTP(s) traffic, routing, load-balancing, and experience operating HAProxy.
  • Proficiency with GitHub and GitHub Actions for code management and IaC pipelines.
  • Experience programming in Python, Go, or Java (preferred).
  • Exposure to large-scale financial services platforms or highly regulated environments (preferred).
  • Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and managing error budgets in production environments (preferred).

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