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Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Sezzle

IndiaPosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights

  • Salary range: $5,000 - $9,500 per month (Gross in USD).
  • Required experience: 6+ years of professional software/infrastructure engineering.
  • Fixed working hours: 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST (remote in India).
  • Must have strong proficiency in Golang and experience building RESTful APIs.
  • Required experience with Claude or equivalent large language model tools.
  • Benefit: Remote‑first culture with diverse personal‑interest community.

Role overview

We are seeking a talented and motivated best-in-class Senior Site Reliability Engineer. This senior SRE role offers a high degree of autonomy and authority to identify and resolve problems in infrastructure, deployments, operational workload, and overall systems, with abundant prospects for career advancement in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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 translate business goals into technical roadmaps and deliver results that matter.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant SRE and backend experience.
  • Deployed significant changes to a production application or infrastructure configuration in the past 30 days.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang, with experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
  • Expertise with SQL‑based RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience optimizing schema and queries for performance at scale.
  • Proficiency in observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic).
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems design patterns (e.g., transactional outbox, event‑driven architecture and stream processing, queues).
  • Demonstrated ability to bring new ideas forward, influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.
  • Demonstrated experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required; candidates must be comfortable leveraging AI to enhance productivity, research, and communication.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, mainly AWS Aurora RDS, both MySQL and Postgres.
  • Experience with data engineering, data pipelines and data warehousing.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deploying containerized microservices in Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with AI developer tooling like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor and using it to be a more productive engineer.
  • Track record of shipping commercial APIs and data‑driven applications in high‑growth environments.
  • Proven leadership in guiding technical direction, improving system reliability, and scaling high‑traffic services.

Benefits

  • Remote‑first work environment (#Li‑remote).
  • Culture that celebrates diverse personal interests such as music, yoga, cycling, cooking, golfing, dog‑loving, and rock‑climbing.
  • Strong emphasis on open‑source technology; Sezzle builds before buying.
  • Opportunities for career advancement within a rapidly growing team.
  • Access to AI tooling and support for AI‑enabled initiatives.

Additional details

  • 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.
  • 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 You: You have relentlessly high standards – many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
  • You’re not bound by convention – your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things.
  • You need action – speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk‑taking.
  • You earn trust – you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
  • You have backbone; disagree, then commit – you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
  • You deliver results – you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.
  • Sezzle’s Technology Stack: Languages – Golang, Typescript, Python; Frontend – Typescript (React and React Native); Backend – Golang; Database – MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch; DevOps & Cloud – AWS, Kubernetes; Version Control – Git; CI/CD – Gitlab; Testing – Developer and AI‑driven, focus on automated end‑to‑end, integration, and unit tests; Open Source – Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!
  • #Li‑remote #full‑time
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