Senior Site Reliability Engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Pave Bank is building the future of programmable banking — combining traditional banking with digital assets under a single, regulated platform. Your work will directly impact the safety, performance, and scalability of our banking platform, helping our customers trust Pave Bank with their finances.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You’ll Be Doing</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems and services.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC), deployment pipelines, and automation to support continuous delivery, scalability, and disaster recovery.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Respond to incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive postmortems to ensure lessons learned are applied.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Implement and enforce operational best practices: observability, logging, metrics, alerting, capacity planning, failover strategies, and backups.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Operations teams to ensure infrastructure meets reliability, compliance, and security standards.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support service scaling, database operations, cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred), networking, and microservices orchestration.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Document operational runbooks, on-call procedures, and system architecture to support maintenance, knowledge sharing, and compliance.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You’ll Bring</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Technical Skills and Experience</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong programming or scripting skills (Go, Python, Bash, or similar) for automation, tooling, and operational tasks.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager, or similar).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with either FluxCD or ArgoCD for GitOps-based delivery.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and reliability patterns.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience setting up monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to respond to incidents under pressure.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Knowledge of backup and disaster recovery strategies, database management, and secure operations.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Other Skills</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ownership mindset: proactive, responsible, and committed to system reliability.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong communication skills — able to coordinate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">High integrity, attention to detail, and passion for fintech and programmable banking systems.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prior experience in fintech, banking, or other highly regulated industries.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with compliance, security, and data protection best practices.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with high-availability, high-throughput systems, or financial infrastructure.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Exposure to blockchain or crypto systems integrated with banking.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost and performance under rapid growth.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Why Pave Bank?</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work alongside a founding team from Monzo and BigPay, bringing top-tier fintech expertise.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Tackle real-world reliability challenges in a regulated, fast-growing fintech environment.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Learn from and collaborate with experienced engineers while developing your SRE career.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Competitive salary and meaningful equity with room for growth.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Be part of a well-funded startup shaping the future of programmable banking.</p></li></ul><br/><br/>Please mention the word **CONGRATULATIONS** and tag RMTg4LjE1NC40Ljg3 when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTg4LjE1NC40Ljg3).