Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Overview

We are looking for an incredible Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team at Relay, a digital banking platform for self-made business owners. Our goal is to make reliability, security, and speed reinforce one another so that the platform becomes the engine of Relay’s growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Join the team building and owning our production infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines (AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL databases, Terraform, Terragrunt, Github Actions)


• Review infrastructure change requests, and triage & fix high-risk security and privacy issues in infrastructure components


• Build monitoring systems to dynamically assess the infrastructure health


• Improve our data repositories (DB, data warehouse, datalake) posture: engine upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, privacy taggings


• Partner with product teams to balance feature delivery with reliability constraints


• Establish and maintain error budgets for core services


• Provide guidance and mentoring for the rest of the team and help evolve Relay into a world-class security-oriented organization


• Write runbooks and coordinate gamedays


• Shape and mature Relay’s service ownership model by working closely with engineering teams to clarify operational responsibilities


• Collaborate in leading incident response by driving fast mitigation, clear communication, and structured decision-making

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a site reliability engineer working with AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, GitHub, and GitHub Actions


• Experience owning observability initiatives (logging pipelines, Software Catalog, monitoring strategies, and incident management tooling)


• Experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Node.js, and Typescript


• Hands-on experience managing and optimizing databases such as Aurora RDS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache


• Strong security and operations mindset, ready to be on-call for production issues


• Team player with a collaborative approach


• Curious and up-to-date with infrastructure best practices

About Relayfi

Relay is a digital banking platform that gives self-made business owners the tools and know-how to be great with money—bringing clarity, confidence, and control to every dollar earned, so they can turn hard work into lasting success.