Kody
Senior Site Reliability Engineer- Sunnyvale, CA, the US
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
Distributed SystemsPostgreSQLRedisAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaIncident ResponseComplianceLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Payments Infrastructure) Kody is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and operational excellence of our global payment platform.
- Participate in a follow-the-sun production on-call rotation as a primary incident responder.
- Diagnose, triage, mitigate, and coordinate resolution of production incidents across payment services, Kubernetes platforms, databases, messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting standards, and operational readiness processes.
- Drive reliability improvements through automation, observability, capacity planning, performance optimization, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve resilience, security, and operational maturity in PCI-DSS-regulated environments.
Requirements
- Requirements 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles supporting mission-critical production systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Linux, networking, and modern observability platforms.
- Proven experience operating payment, banking, fintech, or other highly regulated systems with stringent security, compliance, and uptime requirements.
- Strong knowledge of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, alert governance, and operational excellence.
Company info
- Lead a dynamic and innovative team in a very rapidly growing company.
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