DailyPay
worktech
StaffSiteReliabilityEngineer
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“Staff Site Reliability Engineer at DailyPay. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Technical leadership, System reliability, Observability. Drive operational excellence and reliability best practices across the organisation. Champion our SRE mission”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensuring our services are always up, always stable and always there when our users need them most; Improve system reliability
Industry & Context.
Critically evaluate AI-generated code; Ask difficult questions; Checking our own assumptions; Staying curious about the experiences of others
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of experience designing, building and scaling complex, highly available systems, Deep SRE expertise: We strongly align with the principles outlined in the Google SRE Book, Proven technical leadership: A track record of delivery, technical leadership, and cross-team collaboration, AI Readiness: A willingness to work with AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow. You don't need to be an expert today, but you should be curious, open to learning, and able to critically evaluate AI-generated code before it reaches production.
Nice to Have
Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS and LGTM would be advantageous, Coding skills: You are comfortable writing production-quality code, ideally in Go or Python is advantageous.
What You'll Do.
Drive operational excellence and reliability best practices across the organisation
Champion our SRE mission
Lead both our dedicated SRE team and the wider engineering organisation
Act as a technical team leader and SRE subject matter expert across the organisation
Influence engineering culture to promote reliability and operational excellence
Steer the SRE roadmap
technical strategy and reliability standards in collaboration with leadership and our principal engineers
Shape the organisation’s observability standards
Identify strategic opportunities to improve system reliability and champion them to completion
Level up the SRE team through mentoring
setting a high bar and leading by example
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-team collaboration; Collaboration with leadership and our principal engineers; Partnership; Inclusive, professional environment; Peer advocacy
Full Job Description
About Us: DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center. http://www.dailypay.com/press Because millions rely on us for their financial well-being, our SRE team is dedicated to ensuring our services are always up, always stable and always there when our users need them most. THE ROLE: We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to drive operational excellence and reliability best practices across the organisation. We are looking for someone who is passionate about SRE, operates with a high degree of autonomy and is comfortable navigating ambiguity. In this position, you will be expected to champion our SRE mission, leading both our dedicated SRE team and the wider engineering organisation. Our Tech Stack: Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, DataDog, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT: - Act as a technical team leader and SRE subject matter expert across the organisation - Influence engineering culture to promote reliability and operational excellence - Steer the SRE roadmap, technical strategy and reliability standards in collaboration with leadership and our principal engineers - Shape the organisation’s observability standards, platform choices, and best practices. - Identify strategic opportunities to improve system reliability and champion them to completion - Level up the SRE team through mentoring, setting a high bar and leading by example. WHAT YOU BRING TO THE
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