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 and security of production systems end-to-end across AWS/GCP and on-premises. You will design Kubernetes deployment strategy, own CI/CD and GitOps pipelines and Terraform, build observability, resolve database performance issues, lead incident investigations, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- At least 4 years in SRE, DevOps, MLOps or platform engineering, including senior-level scope at a high-traffic company
- Deep expertise in one major cloud provider (preferably AWS)
- Production experience with Kubernetes and Linux
- CI/CD and GitOps (ArgoCD or equivalent)
- Database performance analysis and monitoring (MySQL, Postgres)
- Observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Strong working English and documentation discipline
- On-call and incident handling experience
- Ability to negotiate technical compromises with stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Own availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems
- Design and evolve Kubernetes deployment strategy
- Own CI/CD and GitOps pipelines and Terraform infrastructure
- Diagnose and resolve database performance issues
- Build and maintain observability
- Implement process and system improvements for performance and security
- Scope and lead medium-to-large infrastructure initiatives
- Negotiate technical tradeoffs with stakeholders to meet business SLAs
- Mentor peers and junior engineers
- Maintain documentation for owned systems and incidents
- Lead structured incident investigation and take part in on-call during high-traffic events