Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
MeridianLink · Remote · US Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$104k – $163k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Fully remote
- AWS or Azure
- Python automation
- Fintech industry
Join the cloud engineering team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for the reliability, scalability, and observability of critical financial SaaS applications. You will work across cloud platforms to build resilient systems, prevent outages, and ensure high-performance services for customers in a regulated fintech environment.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Indicators (SLIs)
- Lead observability strategy including monitoring, logging, and tracing architectures
- Build runbooks and lead incident response and post-incident reviews
- Architect cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure using infrastructure-as-code
- Develop automation and AIOps capabilities to reduce toil and enable self-healing
- Drive reliability improvements via load testing and chaos engineering
- Partner with application teams on system design and architecture reviews
- Write Python tooling for automation, metrics, and operational workflows
- Implement security and compliance principles for regulated environments
What you'll need
- 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
- Expert-level experience with Azure or AWS at scale
- Deep expertise in observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Strong background in defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or bash for production automation
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Proven track record in incident management and on-call ownership
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and communicate cross-functionally
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated industries
- Knowledge of compliance standards like SOC 2 or PCI-DSS
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Background in chaos engineering using tools like Gremlin
- Contributions to open-source observability or infrastructure projects
- Expertise in network or application security hardening
Stack
- AWS
- Azure
- Python
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Global availability preferred