Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Stablecoin rails for real-world payments.
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About StraitsX
StraitsX is a Singapore-headquartered provider of regulated stablecoin and digital-payment infrastructure. It issues fiat-backed stablecoins including XSGD, XUSD, and XIDR, and provides settlement, wallet, dedicated virtual accounts, card issuance, QR-payment connectivity, OTC trading, and API services.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the availability, performance, scalability, security, and cost outcomes of production systems across cloud and on-premises environments. You will evolve Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, GitOps, and Terraform infrastructure; diagnose database issues; improve observability; lead infrastructure initiatives and incident investigations; and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, MLOps, or platform engineering
- Senior-level experience at a high-traffic company
- Expertise in a major cloud provider, preferably AWS
- Production experience with Kubernetes and Linux
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps
- Database performance analysis and monitoring experience with MySQL and Postgres
- Experience with Datadog and OpenTelemetry
- Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform
- Strong English communication, documentation, and process discipline
- On-call and incident-handling experience during high-traffic events
- Ability to negotiate technical compromises that meet business SLAs
Responsibilities
- Own the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems
- Design and evolve Kubernetes deployment strategies
- Own production CI/CD, GitOps, and Terraform infrastructure
- Diagnose and resolve database performance issues
- Build and maintain observability
- Implement process and system improvements for performance and security
- Lead infrastructure initiatives and communicate their impact to stakeholders
- Negotiate technical tradeoffs to meet business SLAs
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices
- Maintain documentation and process discipline
- Lead incident investigations and participate in on-call coverage
