Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Company Description

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.

Job Description

🎯 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.

Qualifications

🛠️ 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.

✨ Bonus Points: Hands-on experience running or orchestrating Agentic AI frameworks in production settings.

💻 Tech Stack We Use

• Languages: Go, Python, Ruby, Java, Kotlin

• Cloud & Infra: AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Kinesis, CloudWatch), Linux, Terraform, Docker

• CI/CD: GitLab, Jenkins

• Observability: Honeycomb, Sumo Logic, Sentry

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation including Restricted Stock Units
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start, our immersive global induction programme
• Work alongside brilliant people, see more via #InsideFlywire on social media
• A dynamic global team collaborating virtually for years
• Wellbeing programmes including mental health, wellness and yoga, pilates and HIIT classes with global FlyMates
• The chance to be a meaningful part of our success, since every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer for a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days

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