This role pays less than
63%
of similar roles. Most pay
$162,366–$218,718
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$175k
versus about
$191k
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
52 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$149,000–$186,000
across 49 roles with salary data.
Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
The Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer applies software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. Working within a major technology domain, this role provides broad technical leadership to align multiple teams around sustainable reliability practices and technical direction. You will partner with Software Engineering teams to ensure observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are integrated throughout the development lifecycle. Key responsibilities include managing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and infrastructure as code while reducing operational toil through automation and reusable patterns. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, Linux/Unix environments, and public cloud technologies like AWS. You will utilize tools for monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD to resolve systemic production issues within the payment services domain, ensuring high availability for critical financial transaction systems.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 60 postings across 16 companies.
Apply software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve reliability, scalability, and operational health of production services.
Partner with engineering teams to integrate observability, recoverability, and performance into the system lifecycle.
Use data and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks and guide technical decisions.
Define and implement service-health measures including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Improve infrastructure through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and advanced monitoring tools.
Translate recurring production issues into improvements in code, architecture, and engineering practices.
Lead incident response efforts and drive improvements to on-call practices across the organization.
Reduce operational toil by creating reusable patterns, tooling, and automated systems.
What we're looking for
Candidates must possess eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire.
Minimum 12 years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, or a comparable 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.
Site Reliability Engineering
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Java
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Dynatrace
Bash
PowerShell
FedRAMP
Distributed Systems
Load Balancing
DNS
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
AWS
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Linux
Unix
Distributed Systems
Monitoring
Logging
Tracing
Incident Management
Capacity Management
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
AWS
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Linux
Unix
Distributed Systems
Monitoring
Logging
Tracing
Incident Management
Capacity Management