Senior SRE — API/Fintech Platform

Company: Undisclosed US API Fintech Company (via HN Who's Hiring May 2026)

About the Company: A US-based API company operating primarily in B2B fintech. Stack is Golang services running on EKS in AWS, with Postgres, Datadog, GitHub, and growing ML/AI capabilities. Leaning into agentic spec-driven development. The company did not disclose its name publicly but posted directly on HN Who's Hiring.

Job Category: Site Reliability Engineering / Platform / AWS / Golang / Fintech

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Remote — USA

Salary: Competitive (senior SRE market in fintech: $160,000–$200,000 for US-based candidates) Application: Apply by emailing the poster from the HN Who's Hiring May 2026 thread (search "US-based senior SRE" in the thread at news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975571)

Posted: May 8, 2026

Job Description: A US-based senior SRE role supporting feature teams at a B2B fintech API company. You'll operate Golang-based microservices on EKS in AWS, maintain Postgres data infrastructure, and help the team lean into agentic spec-driven development and growing ML/AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support feature teams with reliable, scalable platform infrastructure
• Operate and improve EKS-based Golang microservice deployments on AWS
• Maintain Postgres infrastructure and data reliability at scale
• Work with Datadog for observability and incident response
• Help integrate growing ML and AI capabilities into the platform
• Contribute to agentic spec-driven development practices

Skills Required: Golang, EKS/Kubernetes, AWS, Postgres, Datadog, SRE/platform engineering, CI/CD with GitHub, ML/AI infrastructure familiarity.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of engineering experience with strong SRE/platform background
• Golang and EKS/Kubernetes production operations experience
• AWS infrastructure experience
• Strong judgment and comfort working in a B2B fintech environment