Location: Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)

Base Salary: $175,000–$200,000 + bonus + equity

Are you ready to take ownership of reliability across a mission-critical FinTech SaaS platform used by institutions that demand zero downtime? We’re searching for a Head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) who understands the unique pressures, scale, and regulatory rigor of the FinTech world — and knows how to build systems that simply don’t break.

This is a leadership role where your decisions directly impact platform trust, financial workflows, and customer experience. If you’ve built, scaled, or stabilised high-availability systems in a FinTech SaaS environment, this is your arena.

What You’ll Lead

Own and evolve the end-to-end SRE strategy for a high-growth FinTech SaaS platform
Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing SRE organisation
Guide architecture and design decisions to ensure resilience and regulatory compliance
Drive automation, reliability tooling, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure maturity
Champion a reliability-first culture across engineering, security, and product teams
Lead major incident management and shape a blameless, data-driven post-mortem culture

What You Bring

Proven leadership experience in FinTech SaaS, digital payments, trading technology, or financial systems
Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, containerisation, and zero-downtime patterns
Expertise with AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, service mesh, and modern observability stacks
Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations in financial technology
Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and calm decision-making

Why This Role Matters

FinTech operates in real time — and so will you. Your work ensures availability, compliance, and customer confidence in a platform that empowers thousands of users across sensitive financial operations.

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