About the role

What will you do at Remitly?

Job Description

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.

We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role

Come join us as a Senior Software Developer on Remitly's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team! We work across Remitly's engineering organization driving programs that improve reliability and availability. Areas of focus include Observability, Incident Response, Problem Management, and Resiliency.

You will build and enhance software focused on solving challenges in these domains, and roll out solutions that can be used by all services.

You Will:

Design and build software projects systems in SRE domains such as observability, incident management, problem management, and resiliency.

Lead large, ambiguous initiatives from inception to planning/design to delivery

Identify company wide opportunities to improve availability, and implement automation and tooling to address.

Provide technical mentorship to other Remitly teams on how to best observe their systems, and design for high availability.

You Have:

5+ years as a Software Development Engineer

2+ years of experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (such as AWS), and infrastructure as code

Experience leading collaborative projects from conception to delivery using Agile/Kanban methodology

Experience implementing Observability tooling at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, New Relic, DataDog, etc)

Deep understanding and passion for SRE concepts, patterns and tooling

Compensation

Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $180,000- $225,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.

Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Benefits

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching

Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave

Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Continuing education

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.

Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Which skills does this role require?

Site reliability engineeringKubernetesCloud infrastructureAWSInfrastructure as codeAgileKanbanObservabilityIncident managementProblem managementResiliencyPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchNew RelicDataDogSoftware EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeIncident ResponseProblem ManagementAutomationToolingHigh AvailabilityFinancial ServicesCloud InfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentMentorshipSystem DesignHybrid Work

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