Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer | Scale a Next-Gen SaaS Platform

Location:
Melbourne (Hybrid)

About

Salient is proud to be partnering with a fast-growing fintech scale-up that's tackling one of the world's most pressing challenges: financial crime. Their AI-powered SaaS platform is already trusted by leading banks and financial institutions across Australia, New Zealand, and beyond.

This is your chance to join an engineering-led culture where reliability, scalability, and security are at the heart of everything.

As the company continues to scale, they are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the platform is highly available, performant, and resilient as usage grows globally.

The Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in balancing innovation with stability:

• Reliability First: Define, measure, and deliver against SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to guarantee platform reliability.
• Incident Management & Response: Build playbooks, lead incident response, and run blameless post-mortems to continuously improve resilience.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement advanced monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenSearch, ELK) to detect and resolve issues proactively.
• Scalability Engineering: Identify bottlenecks and optimise performance so the platform scales seamlessly with demand.
• Infrastructure as Code: Maintain consistency and repeatability by automating infrastructure using Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Resilience & Continuity: Own disaster recovery, backup strategies, and fault-tolerant designs that safeguard customer data.
• Collaboration with Product & Engineering: Work closely with development teams to embed reliability into the software delivery lifecycle.
• Security by Default: Integrate security best practices into infrastructure and operations.

Experience

We're looking for engineers with a strong SRE mindset and the technical depth to keep mission-critical platforms running smoothly:

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps within high-scale SaaS environments.
• Proven track record of setting and managing SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for production systems.
• Experience in incident management: on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortem culture.
• Deep AWS knowledge (networking, IAM, autoscaling, resilience patterns) and expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong background in observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch/ELK, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation (Python, Bash, or Go preferred).
• Exposure to resilience engineering: chaos testing, fault injection, and recovery strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud security and compliance practices.
• A collaborative engineer who thrives on improving systems, processes, and culture — not just fixing incidents.
• Kubernetes or container orchestration, AWS or SRE certifications, or experience embedding SRE practices into software teams.

If you're passionate about building secure, scalable platforms and want to join a high-growth fintech on the rise, Salient would love to introduce you.

• Make an impact: Build the systems that ensure trust and resilience in financial technology.
• Shape reliability practices: Drive SRE standards, metrics, and culture across the business.
• Career growth: Pathways into technical leadership and ownership of reliability domains.
• Hybrid flexibility: Work from Melbourne HQ and remotely, in a setup that fits your lifestyle.
• Startup energy, enterprise reach: Enjoy autonomy, speed, and impact while working with leading banks across the region.

Apply today and let's explore how your expertise in Site Reliability Engineering can shape the future of financial technology.