Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend
Airwallex US, LLC
San Francisco, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 250KJob location
San Francisco, United States of America
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
Data Centers
DevOps
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
System Availability
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Data Pipelines
Job description
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll work closely with product teams in Spend to deliver and maintain scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure in support of key product initiatives. Aligned to the roadmap, you'll lead on infrastructure design and delivery for complex, high-risk projects such as launching new services, executing global data centre migrations, and modernising data pipelines., * Architect and implement cloud infrastructure for new services and roadmap initiatives.
- Embed with development teams to drive reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
- Lead incident response, observability, and automation across critical systems.
- Own team-level SLOs, runbooks, and DevOps performance metrics.
- Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure compliance and resilience.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Public Cloud?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 6+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, observability, and incident response.
- Able to lead SRE strategy for large-scale, cross-functional projects.
- Strong experience supporting production systems with high availability and compliance requirements.
- Proven ability to work closely with developers and guide reliability best practices., * Experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry.
- Familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines, or financial data systems.
About the company
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.
About the team
The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.
Our SRE team is breaking new engineering ground and we have the opportunity to define innovative solutions for a number of challenges, paving the way for other teams to follow in our footsteps. This team is responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring and capacity planning of our Global services.