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Early Warning® · 1 day ago

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Scottsdale, AZ

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$172K/yr - $215K/yr

12+ years exp

Early Warning is a trusted name in payments, providing cutting-edge solutions to enhance the U.S. financial system. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will partner with development teams to design availability and resiliency patterns in applications and infrastructure, ensuring high performance and security standards.

Financial ServicesFraud DetectionPaymentsRisk Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design and Implement software and tools to improve the performance - availability, scalability, and latency, while delivering end products to customer with the highest efficiency and meeting all security standards

Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Build automation and tooling around application management, such as deployments, configuration changes and disaster recovery scenarios

Design, Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems to proactively detect problems and identify cause

Evaluate capacity of the application on a continuous basis to provide stats to the Product/Business teams and recommend an efficient path to scale for future needs

Identify performance bottlenecks and work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues

Serve as a technical liaison for the application and provide documents and runbooks to Level 1 and Level 2 teams

Participate in 24 X 7 on-call rotation

Be a champion of excellent processes; take the initiative in developing repeatable patterns and standard, re-usable work across teams

Work directly with application development teams to provide feedback and technical requirements to the software development lifecycle, implementing best-practice microservice design patterns and other modern software development approaches

Understand and support the adoption of best-practice microservice design patterns and other modern software reliability approaches and techniques

Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on site reliability engineering issues, industry trends and developing technologies. Be a role model to others on the team. Coach and mentor team members

Qualification

PythonGoJavaMicroservices ArchitectureDockerCI/CD ImplementationNetworking FundamentalsLinux AdministrationKafkaSQSJMSOracleDynamo DBAuroraRedisMemcachedGITChefMavenJenkins

Required

Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Business and/or Computer Science or related field

12+ years of related experience managing large complex projects in a technical or software development environment inclusive of post-graduate degree

Proven ability to lead a team through high priority Incidents and improve the RCA process

Excellent troubleshooting skills and proven experience resolving technical issues in complex environments

Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies

Python, Go, Java

Docker

Experience in Microservices Architecture

Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, SQS or JMS

Database Technologies like Oracle, Dynamo DB, Aurora etc

Caching layers such as Redis and Memcached

Strong understanding of Linux administration

Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef, Maven, Jenkins etc

Strong understanding of networking fundamentals

Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions

Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer)

Background and drug screen

Preferred

Good programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Java, ruby, python, JavaScript and GO

Hands-on experience in supporting applications in a 24X7 customer-facing production environment

Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm

Benefits

Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.