EarnIn

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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17 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$252k - $308k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve reliability standards covering SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, production readiness, observability, incident response, and resilience.
  • Lead high-severity incidents as Incident Commander and improve the full incident lifecycle, including detection, triage, investigation, communication, postmortems, and corrective-action tracking.
  • Design and implement AI-assisted workflows for alert correlation, context retrieval, runbook automation, root-cause exploration, postmortem drafting, and remediation recommendations.
  • Improve on-call quality by reducing alert noise, automating repetitive investigations, and building tools that integrate operational context from monitoring, incident, communication, and deployment systems.
  • Guide graceful degradation, failure isolation, capacity planning, and operational safety across EarnIn’s AWS environment.
  • Coach engineers, lead design and incident reviews, and build reusable reliability documentation, tooling, and practices across product engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering with increasing scope and cross-organizational influence.
  • Demonstrated success improving reliability and operational excellence at scale using KPIs such as MTTR, MTTD, alert quality, incident recurrence, SLO attainment, on-call health, or corrective-action completion.
  • Experience applying AI or LLMs to engineering or operational workflows such as alert triage, runbook automation, incident investigation, postmortems, remediation recommendations, knowledge retrieval, or agentic operations tooling.
  • Significant expertise with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident command, blameless postmortems, and recurrence prevention in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong software engineering ability in Python, Go, or similar languages, with experience building tools and automation.
  • Deep observability experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code and cloud infrastructure experience, including Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, and safe reversible deployments.
  • Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or ChatGPT.
  • Experience in fintech, regulated environments, SOC 2, PCI, FinOps, or high-scale cost and performance tradeoffs is preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary range is $252,000-$308,000 plus equity and benefits.
  • Hybrid position based in Mountain View requiring in-office work two days per week.

Tech Stack

Categories

Site Reliability
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About EarnIn

501-1,000 employees

EarnIn builds a mobile app for earned wage access and related financial tools for U.S. workers living paycheck to paycheck. It lets users access a portion of accrued wages before payday, plus features like credit monitoring, automated savings, low-balance alerts, and a debit card, with no mandatory fees or interest. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company issues certain banking products via Evolve Bank & Trust.

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