Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability, scalability, and observability of critical financial SaaS applications and infrastructure. You will work across cloud platforms to ensure seamless, secure, and performant services.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs
• Lead observability strategy by designing monitoring, logging, and tracing architectures
• Build and own runbooks, incident response procedures, and post-incident review processes
• Architect and deploy cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure
• Develop automation and AIOps capabilities to reduce toil
• Drive reliability improvements through load testing, chaos engineering, and failure scenario analysis
• Partner with application and backend teams to design reliable systems
• Write production-grade Python tooling for automation and operational workflows
• Champion security and compliance in infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or closely related roles
• Expert-level experience with Azure or AWS
• Demonstrated expertise in observability
• Strong background in SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs
• Proven experience designing and troubleshooting highly available, resilient, and scalable systems
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, bash, etc. scripting languages
• Hands-on experience with AIOps practices
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Track record of incident management and on-call ownership
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience in the fintech, payments, banking, or other regulated industries
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Proficiency with observability as code
• Background in chaos engineering or reliability testing
• Contribution to open-source observability or infrastructure projects
• Expertise in network security, application security, or infrastructure hardening
• Experience with database optimization, query performance tuning, and backup/recovery strategies

About the company

Meridianlink is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their cloud engineering team.