Senior Database Reliability Engineer

🕒 August 24

🇮🇳 India – Remote

💵 $5k - $9.5k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Sezzle

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Sezzle is a financial technology company that offers a "buy now, pay later" service, allowing consumers to purchase products and pay for them in four interest-free installments over six weeks. The Sezzle app provides users with a flexible financing alternative to traditional credit cards, enabling instant approval decisions without impacting credit scores. Sezzle partners with various top brands, including Amazon, Walmart, and Target, to offer in-app and in-store payment options. The company's mission is to empower consumers financially by providing more financial freedom and control. It is available as a mobile app, with millions of downloads and high user ratings, and works towards accessibility and inclusion on its platform.

📋 Description

• Architect, upgrade, design, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, RDS (MySQL/Postgres), and distributed patterns • Drive the infrastructure team roadmap toward greater reliability, recoverability, and scalability • Lead capacity planning, benchmarking, stress testing, bottleneck identification, and growth preparation • Define, maintain, and enforce SLAs and infrastructure alerts • Improve anomaly detection and flexible alerting • Lead AI enablement efforts to enhance infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling • Build consistency and scalability across a distributed microservices architecture • Establish and evolve observability, security, and CI/CD engineering best practices • Mentor engineers and promote learning, innovation, and operational excellence • Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and deliver results • Identify and resolve problems across infrastructure, deployments, operational workload, and systems

🎯 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 and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs • Expertise with SQL-based RDBMS, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, and optimizing schemas and queries for performance at scale • Proficiency in observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic • Understanding of distributed systems design patterns, including transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and queues • 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 • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science • Must consistently work from 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST while based in India • Preferred: AWS cloud infrastructure, AWS Aurora RDS, data engineering, data pipelines, data warehousing, CI/CD pipelines, containerized microservices in Kubernetes, AI developer tooling, commercial APIs, data-driven applications, and high-traffic services

🏖️ Benefits

• Career advancement opportunities • High degree of autonomy and authority • Flexible, dynamic, fast-paced team environment • Culture of learning, innovation, and operational excellence • Opportunity to work with AI tooling and contribute to AI enablement efforts