About the role
Are 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. 🎯 The Opportunity As 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. 🛠️ What We’re Looking For 5+ 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. ✨
