Engineering Manager, SRE

at  Payrails

THE COMPANY

Payrails is an innovative technology company with a team that has many years of experience in the payment industry and a real-life understanding of the merchants’ needs. We have seen the complexity firsthand and we have learned from all the challenges we’ve faced. Now we want to help leading technology companies around the world accept payments and build financial services with minimal upfront investments.
Our vision at Payrails is to reimagine payments. We do this by removing heavy reliance on Engineering efforts using composable building blocks that put the control firmly in the hands of our customers. We exist to help our customers become more productive and flexible, impacting directly on their ability to grow.
We are joined in our mission by top-tier investors Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT and General Catalyst alongside a great cast of knowledgeable angel investors to enable us to solve the growing complexity of payments.
At Payrails, we are committed to building a team full of the most talented people. Excellence is part of our values and we understand that in order to achieve this, we need to build an environment where skilled people can work openly, collaboratively, and with the utmost trust in one another. We believe people thrive the most when they are fully aware of what the business is trying to achieve, why it is important to the market, and what challenges lie in the way to reaching our goals. In such an environment we believe people can truly excel, grow and enjoy working together. We try hard to be a company where everyone is inspired and feels a sense of responsibility to do the right thing to help us bring our vision to life. Succeeding with us is about finding solutions to the most pressing problems and executing them effectively.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Lead and manage an SRE-focused engineering team, driving technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and maintenance of reliable, scalable, and highly available systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that SRE principles are embedded across all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and team communications, while fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation.
• Drive automation, incident management, and root cause analysis, improving overall system health and reducing operational toil.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, and observability best practices.

YOU’LL BE GREAT FOR THIS ROLE IF

• You have experience in leading a development or SRE team, focusing on building reliable, scalable systems.
• You bring strong expertise in software development (e.g., Golang, Java, Python) and cloud-native infrastructure.
• You have hands-on experience with microservices architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud environments (e.g., AWS).
• You have a proven track record of working in agile and cross-functional teams, with a focus on delivering high-quality, reliable services.
• You are passionate about automation, observability, and optimizing systems for operational excellence.
• You possess strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence across teams.
• You are proficient in English, with experience in FinOps or cloud cost optimization being a plus.