Sezzle

Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, upgrade, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, RDS, and distributed systems patterns.
  • Drive infrastructure roadmap initiatives focused on reliability, recoverability, scalability, capacity planning, benchmarking, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Define and maintain SLAs, alerts, anomaly detection, observability, and operational standards across infrastructure.
  • Improve distributed microservices architecture, security, CI/CD practices, and system performance.
  • Lead AI enablement efforts that apply AI and automation to infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling.
  • Build and maintain Golang services and RESTful APIs, including database and backend systems.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and translate business goals into technical roadmaps.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant SRE and backend experience.
  • Recent experience deploying significant changes to a production application or infrastructure configuration within the past 30 days.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
  • Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, with experience optimizing schemas and queries at scale.
  • Proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.
  • Understanding of distributed systems patterns, including transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and queues.
  • Experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
  • Preferred experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, AWS Aurora RDS, data engineering, data pipelines, data warehousing, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and AI developer tooling such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Cursor.
  • Preferred track record of shipping commercial APIs and data-driven applications and leading technical direction for reliable, high-traffic services.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote role based in India, with required working hours of 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST to support teams in the United States and Canada.
  • Competitive compensation of $5,000–$9,500 USD per month.
  • Career advancement opportunities, high autonomy, and the opportunity to work on AI enablement and infrastructure reliability.
  • Collaborative culture emphasizing learning, innovation, operational excellence, and mentorship.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogElasticsearchGitGoGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReact NativeTypeScript

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Sezzle

201-500 employees

Sezzle builds a buy now, pay later platform that lets consumers split purchases into interest-free installments online and in stores, integrated with e-commerce and retail merchants. The company earns revenue from merchant fees and related consumer charges and provides underwriting and payment processing services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle is a public company dual-listed on Nasdaq and the ASX.

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