Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About Us:
DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.
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Because millions rely on us for their financial well-being, our SRE team is dedicated to ensuring our services are always up, always stable and always there when our users need them most.

The Role:

We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to drive operational excellence and reliability best practices across the organisation.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about SRE, operates with a high degree of autonomy and is comfortable navigating ambiguity. In this position, you will be expected to champion our SRE mission, leading both our dedicated SRE team and the wider engineering organisation.

Our Tech Stack: Go, Terraform, AWS, DataDog, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Act as a technical team leader and SRE subject matter expert across the organisation

• Influence engineering culture to promote reliability and operational excellence

• Steer the SRE roadmap, technical strategy and reliability standards in collaboration with leadership and our principal engineers

• Shape the organisation’s observability standards, platform choices, and best practices.

• Identify strategic opportunities to improve system reliability and champion them to completion

• Level up the SRE team through mentoring, setting a high bar and leading by example.

What You Bring to The Team:

• 8+ years of experience designing, building and scaling complex, highly available systems.

• Deep SRE expertise: We strongly align with the principles outlined in the Google SRE Book.

• Strong coding skills: You are comfortable writing production-quality code, ideally in Go or Python.

• Proven technical leadership: A strong track record of delivery, technical leadership, and cross-team collaboration.

• AI Readiness: A willingness to work with AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow. You don't need to be an expert today, but you should be curious, open to learning, and able to critically evaluate AI-generated code before it reaches production.

• Stack familiarity: Experience with Terraform, AWS and LGTM would be advantageous.

   

What We Offer:

• Opportunity for equity ownership

• Private health insurance option

• Employee Resource Groups

• Fun company outings and events

• Generous PTO Allowance

• 5% Pension contribution

High-performing cultures aren't built in silos, they thrive on partnership. At DailyPay, we Commit Together to an inclusive, professional environment where multifaceted perspectives are our greatest competitive advantage. We recognize that our team members don’t live “single-issue lives,” and we lean into the wide-ranging backgrounds and life stages that sharpen our collective decision-making.

In our high-trust environment, we empower you to Challenge Norms. We’ve created a space where it is safe to ask difficult questions, disrupt the status quo, and share bold perspectives without fear of professional fallout. We believe that by checking our own assumptions and staying curious about the experiences of others, we arrive at better, more innovative results.

We provide the space for you to do your best work through peer advocacy and transparent career development. If you are looking for a culture that values intellectual honesty, celebrates the unique lived experiences of its people, and thrives on collective success, you’ll find it here.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to peopleops@dailypay.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.