Site Reliability Engineer II

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Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a Fly Mate. 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, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We've since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.

Today we support more than 5,300 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,200 global Fly Mates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we're looking for Fly Mates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

The Opportunity:

We, at Flywire, are looking for a 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 developing systems and tooling for Software Engineering teams, enabling and empowering them to achieve full speed on shipping reliable and operable systems. We 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 Software and write testable and secure code
• Dive into scalability and performance considerations in order to detect and solve scalability & performance Issues
• From time-to-time, become embedded within an Engineering team helping them navigate production excellence and advocate for best practices
• 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
• Participate in an on-call shift along with other disciplines to respond to incidents

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• 2-4 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
• Familiarity with the container ecosystem, AI landscape, 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

Some Technologies We Use:

• Programming languages: Java, Go

• Cloud-native production environments

• AWS & GCP with heavy use of managed services

• Linux, Docker, Terraform

• Gitlab

• Claude Code, AWS Bedrock Agent Core

• Open Telemetry, Sentry, Sumologic

• Competitive compensation including Restricted Stock Units

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Flying Start, our immersive global induction programme

• Work alongside brilliant people, see more via #Inside Flywire on social media

• A dynamic global team collaborating virtually for years

• Wellbeing programmes including mental health, wellness and yoga, pilates and HIIT classes with global Fly Mates

• The chance to be a meaningful part of our success, since every Fly Mate makes an impact

• Competitive time off including Fly Better Days to volunteer for a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different Fly Mates 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 30 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our Fly Mates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.

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