Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Finary

• Have experience as the first or founding SRE in a fast-growing company
• Possess experience with fintech or financial systems where reliability is critical
• Have experience optimizing cloud infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance
• Have experience mentoring developers on reliability best practices
• Are a team player, are humble, and like to help others grow
• Are genuinely friendly and ambitious
• Like to take initiative and find new creative solutions to problems
• Are an excellent communicator and know how to coordinate teams, collect feedback and identify bottlenecks
• Are fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Break down big projects into small deliverables, well-presented to engineers, and move fast based on user feedback. You prefer small solutions and know when to improve something

Desirable

• As Finary's first Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be the cornerstone of our technical infrastructure, ensuring our platform remains highly available, performant, and secure for our customers
• Working directly with the VP of Engineering, you'll build and implement the systems, processes, and culture that define reliability at Finary
• You'll establish and enforce reliability standards across our technology stack, implement robust observability solutions, and drive a culture of operational excellence
• By bridging the gap between development and operations, you'll enable our engineering teams to deliver features faster while maintaining stability
• In this highly independent position, you'll architect and implement solutions using GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker, creating scalable infrastructure that grows with our user base
• You'll define and measure SLOs/SLIs, build automated recovery systems, streamline incident response processes, and continuously optimize infrastructure costs
• Beyond technical implementation, you'll be a thought leader for reliability practices, collaborating with all engineering teams to embed reliability thinking into our development lifecycle from the start, not as an afterthought
• Your manager will be Bertrand Lehurt (VP Engineering)
• Have extensive experience designing and maintaining high-availability architectures in production environments
• Possess deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, particularly Kubernetes
• Are proficient with infrastructure as code tools, especially Terraform
• Have strong experience with containerization technologies like Docker
• Excel at implementing and utilizing observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Have a proven track record implementing effective monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes
• Possess strong analytical skills for troubleshooting complex system failures and performance bottlenecks
• Apply security principles (least privilege, secure defaults, etc.) as a foundational aspect of system design
• Have experience defining and tracking reliability metrics (SLOs/SLIs/SLAs) that align with business goals
• Demonstrate a bias for automation, consistently replacing manual processes with scalable solutions
• Are comfortable being on-call and handling production incidents calmly and methodically
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work collaboratively across teams while maintaining independence and ownership
• Make pragmatic operational decisions, balancing ideal solutions with business needs