This role pays less than
79%
of similar roles. Most pay
$152,150–$217,668
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$146k
versus about
$185k
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
64 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$143,500–$183,000
across 60 roles with salary data.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Paze
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer joins a technical team to apply software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. This role involves partnering with Software Engineering teams to ensure observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are integrated throughout the service lifecycle. The engineer will build automation, manage Infrastructure as Code, oversee CI/CD pipelines, and lead incident response for complex production issues. Key technical requirements include experience with distributed systems, Linux/Unix environments, and public cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP. The role focuses on solving problems related to payment systems by implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets while reducing operational toil through reusable patterns and tools. Essential skills include proficiency in modern programming languages, networking, container orchestration, and advanced monitoring and alerting systems.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 60 postings across 17 companies.
Apply software engineering and automation principles to improve service reliability, scalability, and operational health.
Use data and rigorous engineering analysis to identify risks and guide technical decisions.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health metrics.
Enhance observability through improved metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting systems.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment practices.
Translate recurring production issues into improvements in code, architecture, and automation tools.
Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and blameless post-incident learning for complex production events.
Reduce operational toil by creating reusable patterns and automated systems to minimize manual intervention.
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 relevant professional experience in SRE, Software 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.
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 is preferred, or comparable experience with another major cloud platform (preferred).
Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers, observability, and software-delivery automation (preferred).
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
AWS
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Linux
Unix
Distributed Systems
Monitoring
Logging
Tracing
Incident Management
Capacity Management
Python
Go
Java
Docker
Kubernetes
Microservices
Kafka
SQS
JMS
Oracle
Dynamo DB
Aurora
Redis
Memcached
Linux
CI/CD
Git
Chef
Maven
Jenkins
AWS
Ruby
JavaScript