Site Reliability Engineer PayJunction · Remote Site Reliability In listing ago
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93190, USA
Listed on 2026-10-22
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability, AWS, Systems Engineer
Senior Site Reliability role ote
· full-time.
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What you'll do- Keep payment systems available and responsive, taking charge of uptime and incident response around the clock
- Shift legacy internal Dev Ops services onto a reproducible container platform
- Develop AWS infrastructure with Terraform, accounting for reliability, security and cost
- Operate Linux and manage infrastructure code across physical, virtual, container and cloud environments
- Build PCI DSS safeguards into the platform, guide architecture choices, document decisions and support analytics infrastructure
- At least ten years in development, Dev Ops or site reliability engineering
- Five or more years running Linux servers in production
- Three or more years each operating AWS infrastructure and production containers
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automation scripting, plus hands-on physical server and data center work
This staff-level role suits an experienced SRE or Dev Ops engineer who can work across cloud and physical infrastructure. You may work remotely or from the Santa Barbara office, but must reside in California, Illinois, Texas or another listed state. Periodic on-site visits to Santa Barbara are needed for physical server support.
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Pay Junction is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, security, and automation of the platform that moves billions of dollars a year, across AWS, containers, and the physical servers we still rack ourselves.
Why Pay Junction?
Pay Junction is relentless and emphatical about helping others. We exist to drive the success of our partners. Specifically, the developers who connect to us, businesses who process payments through us, and all of our team members who work with us at Pay Junction.
We believe dreams inspire people to start a business, and others to partner with them. While building dreams, entrepreneurs and business professionals will face many challenges along the way. We believe great partners can make all the difference.
We are your dream partner.
Your success is our success.
Our dream is to help you realize yours.
We exist to drive the success of our partners. We do this by fundamentally changing the way you transact with others. We just happen to make great payment systems. If you love helping others succeed, in a culture that celebrates perfecting your craft, consider partnering with us.
Location
Pay Junction takes a Flex First approach to work environments. This means that our team members can choose to work from our Santa Barbara office or remotely from home. We ensure that everyone has the resources and equipment to work where they feel most productive. We trust our teams to make the best decision for their work environment. All Pay Junction employees must reside in one of the following states: CA, IL, TX, MN, CO, GA, NY, MA, CT, NC.
Mission
Our SRE / Dev Ops team’s mission is to securely deliver reliable and responsive computing platforms for our customer products to run on. We keep production available and responsive, manage our infrastructure as code across physical, virtual, containerized, and AWS estates, treat PCI DSS compliance as an engineering property of the platform rather than an annual scramble, and provide the secure internal platform that Pay Junction's operational, analytics, and BI tooling runs on.
Vision
To have customers who rave about our secure, reliable, and responsive products that are always there for them, safely storing their important information.
Job Responsibilities
- Keep production available and responsive, owning uptime and incident response for the systems that process payments around the clock.
- Drive the containerization of our internal Dev Ops estate, moving legacy services into a modern, reproducible container platform.
- Engineer and evolve our AWS infrastructure with Terraform, building for reliability, security, and cost-awareness.
- Manage infrastructure as code across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud estates using Puppet / Open Vox, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Administer Linux servers end to end, from cloud instances down to the physical hardware and data center work behind them.
- Build PCI DSS compliance into the platform itself, through patching, vulnerability management, logging, and monitoring that hold up under audit.
- Provide technical leadership on architecture and tooling…
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