Senior Site Reliability Engineer – APAC

About the role

Reap is establishing a Site Reliability Engineering practice to support its fast‑growing payments platform. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will define reliability standards, own the stability of card issuing, payouts, FX and stablecoin settlement, and help shape the engineering culture across the APAC region.

Key responsibilities

• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs and error budgets in partnership with product and engineering teams.
• Design, build and maintain highly available infrastructure across multiple AWS regions.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, treating manual work as a platform bug.
• Lead by example, setting standards for reliability, security and observability.
• Mentor and up‑skill engineers in SRE best practices within a flat, distributed team.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure compliance with PCI DSS and financial regulations.

Required profile

• Senior‑level professional with hands‑on experience in large‑scale, regulated systems.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work autonomously across time zones.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and a passion for building reliable platforms.

Required skills

• AWS (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, site‑to‑site VPN, WAF, KMS)
• Compute services: ECS/Fargate, Lambda, EKS
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Argo CD
• Databases: Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis
• Messaging & streaming: SQS, EventBridge, Kafka
• Observability: New Relic, CloudWatch
• Programming & scripting: Python, Go, Bash