Skyro is a rapidly expanding fintech company serving thousands of customers in the Philippines through our lending business. Our mission is to evolve into a full-fledged financial ecosystem, delivering cutting-edge solutions that make financial services more accessible, efficient, and secure for everyone.

What you will do

Technical Execution:

• Design, build, and maintain reliable infrastructure and platform services across multiple regions

• Own reliability for assigned services, including SLI/SLO definition, monitoring, and improvement

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across the full stack

• Implement and improve Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling

• Drive architectural improvements that enhance availability, performance, and fault tolerance

Operational Excellence:

• Lead incident response for critical production issues and conduct thorough postmortems

• Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and recovery procedures

• Contribute to DR strategy and participate in DR testing and chaos engineering exercises

• Proactively identify reliability risks and implement preventive measures

Collaboration & Mentorship:

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing

• Collaborate with product engineering teams on reliability requirements and best practices

• Contribute to cross-team standards for observability, alerting, and incident management

• Participate in architecture reviews and provide technical guidance on reliability decisions

Continuous Improvement:

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve SRE practices

• Automate toil and repetitive operational tasks to improve team efficiency

• Contribute to capacity planning and cost optimization initiatives

• Stay current with industry trends in reliability engineering and cloud infrastructure

What you should have:

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering

• Strong expertise in distributed systems, reliability patterns, and fault-tolerant architecture

• Solid programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages, with scripting proficiency (Bash)

• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting at scale

• Strong experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) in production environments

• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt) including module development

• Strong observability skills: Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, and centralized logging

• Experience defining and maintaining SLIs/SLOs for production services

• Proven ability to lead incident response and drive meaningful postmortems

Nice to have:

• Database operations experience (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse)
  

• GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Helm chart development
  

• Financial services or regulated environment background

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  Experience with XaaS platforms (S3, DBaaS, VMaaS, CDNaaS)
  

• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST)
  

• Chaos engineering or DR testing experience

What happens after you apply?

We review applications on a rolling basis and aim to get back within 2–3 business days. If there’s a fit, we’ll reach out. If you don’t hear from us within 2–3 weeks – consider it a pass. Thanks for taking the time – we appreciate your interest. 🚀

Collaboration Notice

Please note that the workday should start no later than 2 PM (GMT+8)/7 AM (CET) to ensure effective collaboration within our international team.