Flywire

Site Reliability Engineering Manager II

Flywire$160K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • 2-5 years of experience in a leadership capacity managing SRE teams
  • Familiarity with programming languages and software engineering practices
  • Experience with testing methodologies like TDD and BDD
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD tools
  • Strong problem-solving skills with ownership of complex challenges
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with empathy as a core value

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate daily activities for site reliability engineers (SREs) and collaborate with management
  • Track and assess team success against set goals
  • Implement solutions for routine production issues
  • Embed within engineering teams to promote production excellence
  • Mentor and guide team members while driving key initiatives
  • Design features considering system-wide architectural concerns
  • Collaborate across disciplines for service design and deployment

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Global induction program to connect with executives and teams
  • Participation in a dynamic, global team culture
  • Comprehensive wellbeing programs, including mental health support and fitness classes
  • Generous time-off policy, including volunteering and digital disconnect days
  • Talent and development programs for aspiring managers
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Opportunity

We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering to join our team. In this role, you'll help drive reliability, automation and performance within our cloud-based infrastructure. At Flywire, the SRE team is responsible for the lifecycle of production systems. Our team is embedded within Software Engineering teams enabling and empowering them to achieve full speed on shipping reliable and operable systems. They also work at a global scale driving initiatives to achieve production excellence.
  • Coordinate and support daily activities for SREs on the team and partner with their managers to determine approach for managing daily tasks
  • Track success on the team based on established goals and objectives
  • Work on issues of limited scope with the ability to find and execute solutions to routine problems
  • Become embedded within an Engineering team helping them navigate production excellence and advocate for best practices
  • Mentor team members and drive initiatives
  • Drive a design for a feature while understanding system-wide and architectural concerns
  • Understand the basic day-to-day tasks traits of a production environment and participate in on-call support
  • Engage and collaborate with other disciplines within the design, deployment, operation and optimization of services
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack as well as practice incident response and blameless postmortems
  • Identifies opportunities both in processes and tools to improve the overall productivity of the team
  • Identify great talent and excite them to join our team
  • Provide estimations, track progress and manage risk as well as team members' time
  • Participate in an on-call shift along with other disciplines to respond to incidents
  • Become involved in tech communities and add contributions to enhance them
  • Lean into our business domain and needs as well as our company vision, mission and strategy to deliver on our short and long term goals


Qualifications

Here's what we're looking for
  • 5 years of experience within the SRE space
  • 2-5 years of leading or managing and developing SRE teams
  • Comfortable with the idea of being or becoming a generalizing specialist as we are aiming to build a multidisciplinary and balanced team based on "t-shaped" individuals.
  • Experience with at least one programming language is required as software engineering is an important part of our work and we actively use and support many different platforms and languages
  • Proficient with testing techniques such TDD or BDD will be highly valued
  • Familiarity with the container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems and CI/CD tools is key for being successful at this role
  • Comfortable taking ownership of complex systems challenges and help uncover opportunities for improvement
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, and most importantly, empathy as we enable, empower and encourage our fellow colleagues


Some Technologies We Use:
  • Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Go, Node, Python
  • AWS: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, RDS, Kinesis, S3, ElasticSearch, DocumentDB
  • Linux, Docker, Terraform, Make, Chef
  • Gitlab, Jenkins
  • Sentry, Sumologic, Honeycomb


Our Culture:
  • We are a global company. Our engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries so remote work is allowed!
  • Our engineering practice is shaped around concepts including Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the way they consider more appropriate to execute their mission.
  • We actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events.
  • We are active in contributing to open source whenever possible.
  • We contribute to our local communities by hosting different events, Meetups, etc


Additional Information

What We Offer:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
  • Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
  • Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
  • Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
  • Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in your community and Digital Disconnect Days!
  • Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight - for new or aspiring managers!)


Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager and other Flymates. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your "go-to" person for questions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $200,000 and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, position level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education and training.

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About Flywire

Flywire is a financial technology company that provides payment solutions for businesses and institutions. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Flywire's platform allows businesses to accept payments from customers around the world, with support for over 240 countries and 150 currencies. The company's solutions are used by a variety of industries, including education, healthcare, travel, and technology. Flywire has raised over $300 million in funding and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about Flywire
Size
500 employees
Market Cap
$2.4 billion
Industry
Founded
2009

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