Site Reliability Engineer

Who is Rainforest?

Rainforest is an early stage payments-as-a-service startup that has developed a solution that makes monetizing payments for vertically focused software platforms fair and simple.

We focus on small-to-mid sized platforms that want to add value to their small business customers through embedded payments — and want to do so without adding operational or regulatory burdens or costs.

Led by a successful repeat fintech founder with deep knowledge of the industry, and with venture backing from a Top 10 VC firm, Rainforest is well positioned to make an impact in the payments-as-a-service space, and we're looking for new team members who want to be a part of this journey!

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a proactive, hands-on Site Reliability Engineer who thrives in building and scaling cloud infrastructure in fast-moving startup environments. You’re someone who enjoys owning systems end-to-end — from infrastructure design to production reliability — and partnering closely with engineers to ship secure, scalable payment platforms. You bring a strong technical foundation, a problem-solving mindset, and a passion for automation, performance, and continuous improvement. If you’re excited about making a real impact in fintech, and helping shape SRE practices as the company grows, you’ll feel right at home at Rainforest.

What are some of the high-impact opportunities you’ll tackle?

- Owning and scaling Rainforest’s Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based cloud infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) orchestration

- Building, operating, and continuously improving Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and serverless environments that support our core payments services

- Designing and maintaining modern CI/CD pipelines with GitLab to enable fast, safe deployments

- Implementing and evolving monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure high uptime and quick incident resolution using tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and...