About Us
DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on‑demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award‑winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well‑being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center. Because millions rely on us for their financial well‑being, our SRE team is dedicated to ensuring our services are always up, always stable and always there when our users need them most.
The Role
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to drive operational excellence and reliability best practices across the organisation. We are looking for someone who is passionate about SRE, operates with a high degree of autonomy and is comfortable navigating ambiguity. In this position, you will be expected to champion our SRE mission, leading both our dedicated SRE team and the wider engineering organisation.
Our Tech Stack
Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, DataDog, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry
How You Will Make An Impact
- Act as a technical team leader and SRE subject matter expert across the organisation
- Influence engineering culture to promote reliability and operational excellence
- Steer the SRE roadmap, technical strategy and reliability standards in collaboration with leadership and our principal engineers
- Shape the organisation’s observability standards, platform choices, and best practices.
- Identify strategic opportunities to improve system reliability and champion them to completion
- Level up the SRE team through mentoring, setting a high bar and leading by example.
What You Bring To The Team
- 8+ years of experience designing, building and scaling complex, highly available systems.
- Deep SRE expertise: We strongly align with the principles outlined in the Google SRE Book.
- Proven technical leadership: A strong track record of delivery, technical leadership, and cross‑team collaboration.
- AI readiness: A willingness to work with AI‑assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow. You don't need to be an expert today, but you should be curious, open to learning, and able to critically evaluate AI‑generated code before it reaches production.
- Stack familiarity: Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS and LGTM would be advantageous.
- Coding skills: You are comfortable writing production‑quality code, ideally in Go or Python is advantageous.
What We Offer
- Opportunity for equity ownership
- Private health insurance option
- Employee Resource Groups
- Fun company outings and events
- Generous PTO allowance
- 5% pension contribution
Compensation
£79 K – £106 K
Equal Opportunity Employer
DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.
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DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on‑demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award‑winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well‑being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay’s Press Center. Because millions rely on us for their financial well‑being, our SRE team is dedicated to ensuring our services are always up, always stable and always there when our users need them most.
The Role
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to drive operational excellence and reliability best practices across the organisation. We are looking for someone who is passionate about SRE, operates with a high degree of autonomy and is comfortable navigating ambiguity. In this position, you will be expected to champion our SRE mission, leading both our dedicated SRE team and the wider engineering organisation.
Our Tech Stack
Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, DataDog, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry
How You Will Make An Impact
- Act as a technical team leader and SRE subject matter expert across the organisation
- Influence engineering culture to promote reliability and operational excellence
- Steer the SRE roadmap, technical strategy and reliability standards in collaboration with leadership and our principal engineers
- Shape the organisation’s observability standards, platform choices, and best practices.
- Identify strategic opportunities to improve system reliability and champion them to completion
- Level up the SRE team through mentoring, setting a high bar and leading by example.
What You Bring To The Team
- 8+ years of experience designing, building and scaling complex, highly available systems.
- Deep SRE expertise: We strongly align with the principles outlined in the Google SRE Book.
- Proven technical leadership: A strong track record of delivery, technical leadership, and cross‑team collaboration.
- AI readiness: A willingness to work with AI‑assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow. You don’t need to be an expert today, but you should be curious, open to learning, and able to critically evaluate AI‑generated code before it reaches production.
- Stack familiarity: Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS and LGTM would be advantageous.
- Coding skills: You are comfortable writing production‑quality code, ideally in Go or Python is advantageous.
What We Offer
- Opportunity for equity ownership
- Private health insurance option
- Employee Resource Groups
- Fun company outings and events
- Generous PTO allowance
- 5% pension contribution
Compensation
£79 K – £106 K
Equal Opportunity Employer
DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.
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