WEX · 5 hours ago
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $199K/yr
12+ years expWEX is seeking a highly motivated and high-potential Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive transformational change and deliver significant business impact across its platform ecosystem. The role involves leading cross-functional initiatives to enhance observability, incident management, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers and influencing architecture across the organization.
Financial ServicesFinTechPaymentsSoftware
Responsibilities
Set the vision and strategy for SRE across the organization
Lead the development of innovative solutions to complex reliability challenges
Represent the organization in industry forums and conferences
Drive cultural transformation to prioritize reliability and operational excellence
Build and maintain relationships with executive stakeholders
Lead organization-wide reliability engineering initiatives
Ensure business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering leadership
Deep experience in cloud-native architecture and large-scale distributed systems
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, service meshes, and distributed tracing
Deep expertise in system design, automation, and performance optimization
Advanced cloud automation experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Exceptional leadership skills with a proven track record of driving reliability improvements
Experience with monitoring and logging (Grafana, ELK stack, Splunk, etc.)
Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong understanding of database reliability engineering (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
Knowledge of networking, databases, and storage architectures
Excellent incident command and crisis management skills
Strong experience in regulatory and compliance frameworks
Experience with systems with high availability and reliability equivalent to benefit platforms
Preferred
Ability to influence C-level executives on reliability strategies
Deep expertise in AI/ML for anomaly detection and predictive analytics in observability
Proven ability to align SRE practices with business goals
Strong financial acumen in cost optimization and cloud spending strategies
Experience with identifying and solving significant problems for Site Reliability and Operations using AI
Recognized thought leader with publications or conference talks in SRE
Strong ability to build high-performing SRE teams and mentor engineering leaders
Experience in healthcare, insurance, or benefits technology
Understanding of Benefits domain such as claims processing, eligibility lookup success rate
Understanding of incident impact awareness on members and providers
Experience working with compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2, or HITRUST
Benefits
Health, dental and vision insurances
Retirement savings plan
Paid time off
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Company
WEX
Wex is a financial technology service provider for fleet, travel and healthcare industries.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (22)
2024 (10)
2023 (12)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$900MKey Investors
Warburg Pincus
2025-02-25Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2020-06-30Post Ipo Equity· $90M
2020-06-30Post Ipo Debt· $310M
Leadership Team
Melissa Smith
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Sachin Dhawan
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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