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$180k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$145,000–$176,000
across 34 roles with salary data.
The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer joins the 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. Key responsibilities include identifying systemic reliability risks, defining SLIs and SLOs, and driving continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and incident response. The candidate will use data and rigorous engineering analysis to guide technical decisions and reduce operational toil through automation. Required skills include experience with modern programming languages, distributed systems, and public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP. The role specifically addresses the technical challenges of maintaining highly available production software and managing complex networking, Linux/Unix environments, and container orchestration.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 17 companies.
Apply software engineering and automation principles to improve the reliability and scalability of production services.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to monitor service health.
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting instrumentation.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment practices.
Identify systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code and architecture.
Lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning.
Participate in an on-call rotation and automate tasks to reduce recurring operational toil.
What we're looking for
Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States for any employer.
Typically 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.
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, Azure, GCP, or OCI is preferred (preferred).