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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.
Early Warning Services currently has
84 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$145,000–$176,000
across 34 roles with salary data.
The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Digital Assets joins the technology team to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. This role involves applying software engineering and systems engineering practices to ensure observability, recoverability, and performance are engineered into systems throughout their lifecycle. You will identify systemic reliability risks, define SLIs and SLOs, and drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and incident response. Key responsibilities include reducing operational toil through automation and mentoring others on reusable engineering practices. The role requires proficiency in modern programming languages, Linux/Unix, networking, and public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. You will solve complex reliability problems within distributed systems to maintain high availability for critical financial payment products and infrastructure.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 17 companies.
Improve the reliability, scalability, and operational health of production services using software engineering and systems engineering practices.
Use automation and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, and recovered.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures.
Enhance observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, incident response, and capacity management.
Identify systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, and tooling.
Lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning.
Reduce operational toil through software, automation, and the development of reusable engineering patterns.
What we're looking for
Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States.
5–8 years of 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.
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.