Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Sezzle · India, RemoteRemote$5,000–$9,500 USD/messenior

In short

▸Ingeniero de confiabilidad de bases de datos senior en fintech con enfoque en infraestructura escalable en AWS y Kubernetes.
▸Diseño, optimización y mantenimiento de sistemas de bases de datos (MySQL/Postgres) y entornos distribuidos, con foco en SLAs, alertas y resiliencia.
▸Destacado involucramiento en la adopción de IA para automatizar y escalar la confiabilidad del sistema.

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What they ask for

✓6+ años de experiencia en ingeniería de confiabilidad o infraestructura.
✓Experiencia sólida con AWS, Kubernetes, RDS (MySQL/Postgres).
✓Capacidad para liderar la planificación de capacidad y pruebas de estrés.
✓Experiencia en definición y manejo de SLAs y alertas avanzadas.
✓Habilidades para mentorar ingenieros y promover buenas prácticas.
✓Disponibilidad para horario fijo de 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST.

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The salary range for this role is $5,000 - $9,500 per month (Gross in USD) About Sezzle: With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping! Compensation : For this senior development role, with 6+ years of experience, the compensation range is $5,000 - $9,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience. Working Hours: This role operates on a fixed schedule of 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST . While the position is based in India, the team operates primarily in the United States, supporting Sezzle’s operations across the U.S. and Canada. Candidates must be available to consistently work during these EST hours. About the Role: We are seeking a talented and motivated best-in-class Senior Site Reliability Engineer. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement. As a Senior SRE with Sezzle, you will have a high degree of autonomy and authority to identify and resolve problems you see in our infrastructure, deployments, operational workload, and overall systems. You should consider yourself a DOer to be a good fit for this role. We expect you to bring a deep well of experience to play, and with AI tooling, you should be a force for scaling in the organization. What you'll do: • Architect, upgrade, design, and build scalable infrastructure solutions leveraging Kubernetes , AWS , RDS (MySQL/Postgres) , and modern distributed patterns. • Help drive the infrastructure team’s roadmap, leading us to higher levels of reliability, recoverability, and scalability. • Drive capacity planning, benchmarking, and work with the team to stress test our systems, find bottlenecks, and prepare for further growth in the business. • Define, maintain and enforce SLAs and alerts across our infrastructure. • Lead the teams towards stronger signal anomaly detection, better, more flexible alerting. • Help Lead Sezzle’s AI enablement efforts , identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to enhance infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling. • Build in consistency and scalability across a distributed microservices architecture while maintaining performance and reliability. • Establish and evolve engineering best practices for observability, security, and CI/CD across teams. • Mentor engineers and champion a culture of learning, innovation, and operational excellence. • Collaborate cross-functionally to <stro

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