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As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.\nEarly Warning follows a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.\nCandidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.\nRole Summary\nThe Site Reliability Engineer II applies software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve the reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services. The role partners with Software Engineering and other technology teams to ensure reliability, observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness are engineered into systems throughout their lifecycle. At the Engineer II level, the engineer works with increasing independence, identifies reliability risks, automates operational work, and helps guide reliability decisions within assigned services. \nCore Responsibilities\nUse software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles and practices to continually improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered. \nUse data, evidence, experimentation, and rigorous engineering analysis appropriate to the level to identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions. \nDefine, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures appropriate to the scope of responsibility. \nImprove observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation. \nDrive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness. \nIdentify recurring or systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices. \nPartner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle. \nParticipate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning appropriate to the level. \nParticipates independently in an on-call rotation for supported production services, diagnosing and resolving incidents and service degradation and escalating complex issues as appropriate. \nReduce operational toil and unnecessary manual intervention through software, automation, reusable patterns, and better engineering practices. \nLeveling Intent\nEngineer II performs the same fundamental SRE mission as Engineer I with greater independence, proficiency, and responsibility for increasingly complex systems. The engineer increasingly multiplies team effectiveness through reusable solutions, knowledge transfer, and improvements that reduce repeated work.\nLevel Expectations\nExpands their force-multiplier impact by creating reusable solutions, sharing expertise, and helping teammates avoid repeatedly solving the same operational and reliability problems. \nDemonstrates software engineering, systems thinking, troubleshooting, and production reliability capabilities appropriate to the level. \nApplies evidence-driven reasoning and technical rigor to distinguish observed facts from assumptions and make defensible engineering recommendations. \nShares knowledge and contributes to sustainable engineering capability rather than creating dependency on individual expertise. \nWorks independently on well-defined reliability problems and increasingly on more complex issues. \nIdentifies and implements continuous improvements within assigned services and areas of responsibility. \nMinimum Qualifications\nTypically 2-5 years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture where applicable, or a comparable technical discipline. \nExperience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages. \nExperience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability appropriate to the level. \nExperience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures appropriate to the level. \nDemonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills appropriate to the scope of the role. \nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience with AWS is preferred, or comparable experience with another major cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). \nExperience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems. \nExperience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability, monitoring, alerting, and software-delivery automation. \nExperience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness appropriate to the level. \nExperience creating reusable automation, tooling, platforms, patterns, or practices that improve engineering effectiveness. \nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. \nPhysical Requirements\nWorking conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 50 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.\nEmployee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.\nThe base pay scale for this position in:\nPhoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $83,000 - $110,000.\nSan Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $99,000 - $132,000.\nAdditionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.\nThis pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.\nSome of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness\nHealthcare 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.\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan - Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.\n\nPaid Time Off - Flexible 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.\n\n12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave\n\nMaven Family Planning - provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.\n\nAnd SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nEarly Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. 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