EarnIn
SiteReliabilityEngineer
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“Site Reliability Engineer at EarnIn. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Incident Response, Infrastructure-as-Code, AI for SRE operations. Design systems with resilience, graceful degradation, and capacity in mind. Define and measure SLOs and SLIs”
What You'll Achieve.
Rapidly delivering production-ready features; Help teams ship quickly and safely; Make deployments feel boring; Systems are highly available, easy to debug, and a joy to work on; The only good 2 a. m. alert is the one that never fires
Industry & Context.
Debugging; Problem-solving
2 days a week required in the office, Willing to be on-call, Travel to our Palo Alto HQ and Bangkok Site, AI fluency is a non-negotiable baseline
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
1+ years of hands-on experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering role (internships count), Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, Active, enthusiastic use of AI productivity tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) for coding, debugging, and infrastructure work., At least one example of using an LLM or AI agent to automate a task or accelerate debugging., Eagerness to build agentic AI workflows: automating alert-to-Slack pipelines, drafting postmortem summaries, building runbook bots, or similar.
Nice to Have
Coding proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar automation experience is a positive signal., Some exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)., Familiarity with monitoring concepts: you have worked with metrics, logs, or traces and want to go deeper., Awareness of SLOs and SLIs as concepts -- you understand why reliability matters to end users, not just to ops teams.
What You'll Do.
Design systems with resilience
Define and measure SLOs and SLIs
Use Datadog and CloudWatch to build observability
Configure alerting and routing
Continuously improve incident lifecycle
Combine solid software fundamentals with reliability thinking
Build or contribute to infrastructure
Build reliability tooling
Build agentic AI workflows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with all teams; Share responsibility for rapidly delivering production-ready features; Communicate tradeoffs clearly to engineers and teams; Collaborate well; Share what you learn with the team; Update your team on blockers; Ask for help without hesitation
Communication Scope
Clear, honest communication; Communicate tradeoffs clearly
Full Job Description
About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY We have a real passion for delivering the best product experience for our community members. We work closely with all teams and share responsibility for rapidly delivering production-ready features to our community. We build or contribute to infrastructure, reliability tooling, and practices that help teams ship quickly and safely. We think a lot about things like good alert hygiene, friendly runbooks, clear SLOs, and how to make deployments feel boring in the best possible way. As an SRE, you are a well-rounded practitioner in designing, observing, and operating our systems in production. Rather than following established playbooks, you are starting to write them. You work with confidence across observability tooling, incident response, and infrastructure-as-code, and you know how to communicate tradeoffs clearly to the engineers and teams around you. This position will be hybrid, based in our Bengaluru office, with 2 days a week required in the office, as part of our expanding site. EarnIn provides excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and opportunities to collaborate with and travel to our Palo Alto HQ and Bangkok Site. Our salary rang
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