Staff Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
PayJunction is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, security, and automation of the platform that moves billions of dollars a year, across AWS, containers, and the physical servers we still rack ourselves. PayJunction is relentless and emphatical about helping others. We exist to drive the success of our partners. Specifically, the developers who connect to us, businesses who process payments through us, and all of our team members who work with us at PayJunction. We believe dreams inspire people to start a business, and others to partner with them. While building dreams, entrepreneurs and business professionals will face many challenges along the way. We believe great partners can make all the difference. We are your dream partner. Your success is our success. Our dream is to help you realize yours. We exist to drive the success of our partners. We do this by fundamentally changing the way you transact with others. We just happen to make great payment systems. If you love helping others succeed, in a culture that celebrates perfecting your craft, consider partnering with us.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience across development, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
- 5+ years administering Linux servers in production.
- 3+ years building and operating production AWS infrastructure.
- 3+ years running production container workloads.
- 3+ years with configuration management and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or similar).
- 3+ years scripting for automation.
- Hands-on physical server and data center experience, with willingness to do periodic on-site work in Santa Barbara for physical server support.
Nice To Haves
- experience operating in an audited or regulated environment such as PCI DSS
- experience standing up infrastructure beneath a BI or analytics stack
- a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Keep production available and responsive, owning uptime and incident response for the systems that process payments around the clock.
- Drive the containerization of our internal DevOps estate, moving legacy services into a modern, reproducible container platform.
- Engineer and evolve our AWS infrastructure with Terraform, building for reliability, security, and cost-awareness.
- Manage infrastructure as code across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud estates using Puppet / OpenVox, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Administer Linux servers end to end, from cloud instances down to the physical hardware and data center work behind them.
- Build PCI DSS compliance into the platform itself, through patching, vulnerability management, logging, and monitoring that hold up under audit.
- Provide technical leadership on architecture and tooling decisions, and document them so the whole team can operate what you build.
- Stand up and support the secure infrastructure underneath PayJunction's analytics and BI stack.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision paid 100% by company for you and your dependents
- 401k with 6% match
- FSA and Dependent Care FSA
- Long-term & short-term disability coverage for you paid 100% by company
- 8 paid company holidays per year
- 2 paid floating holidays per year
- 1 paid volunteer day per year
- Paid Time Off
- Home office equipment stipend
- Annual Learning Stipend
- Quarterly “fun budgets” for team bonding events
- Opportunity to be part of a company that is changing a whole industry
- Opportunity for growth within the company
- Opportunity for remote, in-office, or hybrid work
- Company-provided equipment for your home office
- An equipment allowance for home office essentials
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
