This role pays less than
97%
of similar roles. Most pay
$147,480–$215,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$118k
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
64 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$143,500–$183,000
across 60 roles with salary data.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Digital Assets joins a team focused on improving the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. This role involves applying software engineering and systems engineering practices to ensure observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are integrated throughout the service lifecycle. You will use automation, DevOps principles, and Infrastructure as Code to reduce manual toil while managing CI/CD pipelines, capacity management, and incident response. The ideal candidate possesses 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 container orchestration, and the ability to define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. This role solves critical reliability risks within a complex payment infrastructure to ensure high availability for essential financial transaction systems.
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 engineering analysis to identify risks and guide technical decisions.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health metrics.
Enhance observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, capacity management, and incident response.
Translate recurring production issues into improvements in code, architecture, and tooling.
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, and blameless post-incident learning.
Reduce operational toil through automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices.
What we're looking for
Candidates must possess eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire.
5–8 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.
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures.
Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Hands-on experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or OCI (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
AWS
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Linux
Unix
Distributed Systems
Monitoring
Logging
Tracing
Incident Management
Capacity Management