Sezzle

Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, TurkeySenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, upgrade, design, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, and RDS.
  • Drive infrastructure roadmap initiatives focused on reliability, recoverability, scalability, and capacity planning.
  • Benchmark and stress test systems to identify bottlenecks and prepare for business growth.
  • Define and maintain SLAs, alerts, anomaly detection, and observability practices.
  • Improve infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling through AI and automation.
  • Build consistency and scalability across distributed microservices while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Establish engineering practices for observability, security, and CI/CD.
  • 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.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang and experience building and maintaining commercial APIs.
  • Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, with experience optimizing schemas and queries at scale.
  • Proficiency with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.
  • Understanding of distributed systems patterns such as transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and queues.
  • Ability to introduce ideas, influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.
  • Experience with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience includes AWS Aurora RDS, data engineering, data pipelines, data warehousing, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and AI developer tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Cursor.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote role based in Türkiye.
  • Fixed working hours of 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST to support U.S. and Canadian operations.
  • Opportunities for career advancement, technical leadership, mentorship, and work on AI-enabled infrastructure initiatives.

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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