Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Application for Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at EarnIn Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Bengaluru, India Apply About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY We have a real passion for delivering the best product experience for our community members. We work closely with all teams and share responsibility for rapidly delivering production-ready features to our community. We build or contribute to infrastructure, reliability tooling, and practices that help teams ship quickly and safely. We think a lot about things like good alert hygiene, friendly runbooks, clear SLOs, and how to make deployments feel boring in the best possible way. As a Senior SRE, you are a technical leader in how we design, observe, and operate our systems in production. Rather than tuning kernels all day, you focus on how services behave as a whole: reliability, performance, failure modes, and the engineers' experience building them. This position will be hybrid, based in our Bengaluru office, as part of our expanding site. EarnIn provides excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and opportunities to collaborate with and travel to our Palo Alto HQ and Bangkok Site. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. WHAT YOU'LL DO Design systems with resilience, graceful degradation, and capacity in mind. Define and measure SLOs and SLIs that actually reflect what our customers feel. Use Datadog (logging, metrics, APM) together with CloudWatch to build signal-heavy, noise-light observability. Configure alerting and routing that reach engineers through incident.io, where we run incident management and on-call, so that when a human gets paged, it really matters. Continuously improve our incident lifecycle, from fast detection and solid triage, through clear communication, to blameless, actionable follow-ups. You will combine strong software fundamentals with reliability thinking so our systems are highly available, easy to debug, and a joy to work on. You know that the only good 2 a.m. alert is the one that never fires in the first place WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience 4+ years of development experience in SRE or Software Engineering Hands-on coding experience in Python and/or Go. Successfully managed production environments at scale and understand that you need more than a for-loop and SSH to make it happen. A strong belief that observability is critically important to run highly available and performant services, not an optional nice-to-have. Experience using SLOs, SLIs, and KPIs to guide decisions, prioritize work, and explain tradeoffs, not just decorate dashboards or slide decks. Read (or write) part of or all of the SRE book and have contextualized it for different engineering teams and cultures, instead of treating it as a one-size-fits-all checklist. Proficiency in leveraging AI productivity tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) and prompt engineering to reduce operational toil, accelerate incident root cause analysis, and optimize infrastructure-as-code workflows Hands-on experience shepherding services from design to production, through incident learnings, and into a state where on-call actually gets quieter over time. Tackled site-wide outages, learned the lessons, and know how to turn those lessons into concrete, technical, and process changes that make it much harder for the same problem to happen again. Passion for mentoring engineers and a belief in the investment of people as one of the highest leverage ways to improve reliability and reduce toil. #LI-Hybrid At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant. EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team. Create a Job Alert Interested in building your career at EarnIn? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email. 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