Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Improve system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• - Optimize performance and efficiency of backend services and databases
• - Automate cloud and datacenter operations and promote infrastructure-as-code best practices
• - Collaborate with product teams to proactively improve the reliability of our services
• - Participate in and improve our on-call incident response processes
• - Champion security and compliance in our infrastructure
• - Scale our ledger to handle 10x transaction volume
• - Ensure 99.99% uptime for payment processing despite unreliable infrastructure and communications
• - Keep costs stable while we scale
• - Detect and block fraud in real-time at a massive scale
• - Securely store, transfer, and encrypt sensitive financial data
• - Enable instant money transfers for millions of users across several countries
• - Lead or be involved in the resolution of complex incidents and problems

Required Skills

• - 4+ years of experience in an SRE or DevOps role
• - Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database concepts
• - Track record of successfully implementing observability, CI/CD, and other SRE best practices
• - Strong experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Kubernetes, Terraform
• - Proficiency in at least one backend language, preferably Python
• - Ability to debug and optimize complex systems
• - Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• - Passion for our mission of bringing financial services to underserved markets
• - Experience supporting high-volume transactional systems in the finance/payments domain
• - Familiarity with our tech stack (Postgres, Redis, GraphQL, Android/iOS)
• - Knowledge of security and compliance standards for financial services
• - Contributions to open-source projects or infrastructure community

Benefits

• - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions
• - 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
• - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
• - Travel once per year to one of our operating countries in Africa
• - Yearly stipend of $800 to meet with coworkers
• - Generous equity package