Company Description
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!
Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we're on a mission to deliver the world's most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries.
Today, we've digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world. And, we're just getting started!
With over 1,300+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we're looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Job Description
The Opportunity:
We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer II to join our team. In this role, you'll help drive reliability, automation and performance within our cloud-based infrastructure. At Flywire, the SRE team is responsible for the lifecycle of production systems. Our team is embedded within Software Engineering teams enabling and empowering them to achieve full speed on shipping reliable and operable systems. They also work at a global scale driving initiatives to achieve production excellence.
- Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces with a focus on availability, latency, performance and capacity
- Understand Infrastructure as Code and software as well as write testable and secure code
- Dive into scalability and performance considerations in order to detect and solve scalability & performance Issues
- Become embedded within an Engineering team helping them navigate production excellence and advocate for best practices
- Mentor team members and drive initiatives
- Drive a design for a feature while understanding system-wide and architectural concerns
- Understand the basic day-to-day tasks traits of a production environment Engage and collaborate with other disciplines within the design, deployment, operation and optimization of services
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack as well as practice incident response and blameless postmortems
- Identifies opportunities both in processes and tools to improve the overall productivity of the team
- Identify great talent and excite them to join our team
- Provide estimations, track progress and manage risk as well as team members' time
- Become involved in tech communities and add contributions to enhance them
- Lean into our business domain and needs as well as our company vision, mission and strategy to deliver on our short and long term goals
Qualifications
Here's What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience within the SRE space
- Comfortable with the idea of being or becoming a generalizing specialist as we are aiming to build a multidisciplinary and balanced team based on "t-shaped" individuals.
- Experience with at least one programming language is required as software engineering is an important part of our work and we actively use and support many different platforms and languages
- Proficient with testing techniques such TDD or BDD will be highly valued
- Familiarity with the container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems and CI/CD tools is key for being successful at this role
- Comfortable taking ownership of complex systems challenges and help uncover opportunities for improvement
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, and most importantly, empathy as we enable, empower and encourage our fellow colleagues
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
- Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
- Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight - for new or aspiring managers!)
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your "go-to" person for any questions.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 12 different offices diversity, gender equality, and inclusion are at the core of our people agenda. We believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we're excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.
