Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and ...

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions ...

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If tha...

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work closely with product teams in Spend to deliver and maintain scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure in support of key product initiatives. Aligned to the roadmap, you’ll lead on infrastructure design and delivery for complex, high-risk projects such as launching new services, executing global data centre migrations, and modernising data pipelines.
Architect and implement cloud infrastructure for new services and roadmap initiatives.
Embed with development teams to drive reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
Lead incident response, observability, and automation across critical systems.
Own team-level SLOs, runbooks, and DevOps performance metrics.
Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure compliance and resilience.

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
6+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, observability, and incident response.
Able to lead SRE strategy for large-scale, cross-functional projects.
Strong experience supporting production systems with high availability and compliance requirements.
Proven ability to work closely with developers and guide reliability best practices.
Experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry.
Familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines, or financial data systems.
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