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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 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 build and improve CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation while defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Key responsibilities include identifying cross-service risks, leading incident response, and reducing operational toil through reusable patterns. The position requires proficiency in modern programming languages, Linux/Unix, and networking, with a focus on public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. You will solve complex technical problems regarding distributed systems, production troubleshooting, and service-health instrumentation within a high-availability payment and risk solutions environment.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 17 companies.
Apply software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational health of production services.
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 creation of reusable patterns.
What we're looking for
Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
Must have 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.
Must have experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages.
Must have experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability.
Must have experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures.
Must possess 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 or comparable cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or OCI is preferred (preferred).
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