Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at FreedomPay
Philadelphia, PA
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Jun 29, 2026
Philadelphia, PA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Site Reliability Engineer role focused on maintaining and improving the availability of a global payments platform, with a strong emphasis on AI-driven operations and automation. Day-to-day work spans building observability strategies, designing self-healing workflows, accelerating incident response using tools like Dynatrace, Claude, and Azure AI services, and eliminating manual toil through scripting and AIOps. Suits an experienced SRE with deep APM expertise who actively applies AI tooling to operational problems and participates in an on-call rotation.
Senior level · 5+ years · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 90 people in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 55–160
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,040 (middle half $103,920–$165,140).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
SOC classification is Medium confidence: this SRE role is primarily about building and shipping automation, self-healing workflows, and AI-driven tooling (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but it also carries significant operational responsibilities — incident response, on-call rotation, observability maintenance — that overlap with 15-1244. The coding and automation-building emphasis tips the balance to 15-1252.
Remote is marked false because the posting states the role is 'based in the Philadelphia area with a hybrid schedule'; fully remote is only a possibility for 'exceptional candidates' and is not the standard arrangement.
Dynatrace is listed as 'strongly preferred' but sits within the Required Technical Skills section, making it a hard gate on APM expertise; Datadog and New Relic are named as acceptable alternatives.
PowerShell and Python are listed together with 'and/or', indicating either satisfies the scripting requirement; both are captured as a mutual alternative pair since the JD treats them as interchangeable.
AI tooling (Claude/Anthropic, OpenAI Codex, Azure AI Foundry/Azure SRE Agent) is explicitly required under Required Technical Skills; Claude is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives since they are presented as an interchangeable suite.
Kubernetes and VMware appear under 'Working knowledge of modern technology infrastructure' in the Required Technical Skills section and are treated as hard gates at that proficiency level.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), PagerDuty Process Automation, Windows Server/IIS, CI/CD integration, and MLOps all appear under Preferred Technical Skills or the 'a Plus' section.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
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