Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Senior Site Reliability Engineer IIFull-timeCompany DescriptionAre you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! Who we are:Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,300+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!With over 1000+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.Job Description🎯 The OpportunityAs a Senior SRE II, you will serve as a technical anchor for production reliability. You will design, scale, and maintain our cloud infrastructure while empowering engineering teams to ship reliable, high-performing systems at speed.What You’ll Do Day-to-Day:Cloud & Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain core AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on high availability, low latency, and capacity planning.Embedded SRE Culture: Work closely with product teams to define SLOs/SLIs, advocate for operational best practices, and guide system architecture.Observability & Incident Response: Troubleshoot complex issues across the entire stack, participate in on-call rotations, and drive blameless postmortems.Developer Platform & Tooling: Build internal self-service tooling that enables developers to manage and deploy their own infrastructure safely.Emerging Tech & AI: Explore and integrate cutting-edge practices, including supporting agentic AI workloads in production.Qualifications🛠️ What We’re Looking For5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Infrastructure roles supporting production environments at scale."T-Shaped" Generalist: Strong software engineering fundamentals paired with deep systems expertise.Software Engineering Mindset: Proficiency in at least one modern language (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, or Kotlin) and familiarity with testing practices (TDD/BDD).Cloud & DevOps Ecosystem: Production hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, container orchestrators (ECS/Kubernetes), Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/Jenkins).System Architecture: Ability to take ownership of complex system challenges, translate business needs into technical designs, and mentor peers.Fluent English Communication: Comfortable collaborating with distributed global teams across different time zones.✨ Bonus Points: Hands-on experience running or orchestrating Agentic AI frameworks in production settings.💻 Tech Stack We UseLanguages: Go, Python, Ruby, Java, KotlinCloud & Infra: AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Kinesis, CloudWatch), Linux, Terraform, DockerCI/CD: GitLab, JenkinsObservability: Honeycomb, Sumo Logic, SentryAdditional InformationWhat We Offer:Competitive compensation including Restricted Stock UnitsEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)Flying Start, our immersive global induction programmeWork alongside brilliant people, see more via #InsideFlywire on social mediaA dynamic global team collaborating virtually for yearsWellbeing programmes including mental health, wellness and yoga, pilates and HIIT classes with global FlyMatesThe chance to be a meaningful part of our success, since every FlyMate makes an...