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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 Staff Site Reliability Engineer joins the engineering 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 integrated throughout the system lifecycle. You will build automation, define SLIs and SLOs, and manage infrastructure as code while identifying cross-service risks and providing technical leadership across multiple teams. Key technologies and skills include modern programming languages, Linux/Unix, networking, and public cloud architectures like AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. You will also utilize CI/CD, containers, and orchestration tools to reduce operational toil. The work focuses on solving complex production reliability problems, managing incident response, and developing reusable engineering patterns for highly available distributed systems.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $187000 from 123 postings across 33 companies.
Apply software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational health of production services.
Use data and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks and guide technical decisions.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures.
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and incident response.
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.
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 at the date of hire.
Minimum of 8+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Architecture.
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 (preferred).