Job Description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

of This Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented and technically strong Site Reliability Engineer to join our API Operations team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving production incidents across our Apigee API Implementations. You’ll work closely with API engineering, Developer Services, Product Management, platform, and governance teams to ensure the stability, reliability, and performance of deployed models and agentic solutions across the enterprise. You will join a dynamic team passionate about learning, applying cutting-edge and cost effective technologies, and innovating to deliver high-quality, and highly available API solutions.

What Part Will You Play?

• Serve as the first line of defense for production incidents, ensuring rapid triage, root cause analysis, and resolution.
• Monitor system health and performance of deployed APIs and integrating applications
• Track and investigate issues related to latency, failures, or broken integrations, escalating to the API engineering group where appropriate.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to implement observability, logging, and alerting best practices for API services
• Build diagnostic tools, runbooks, and automated workflows to improve incident response time and reduce manual intervention.
• Maintain knowledge bases and playbooks for repeatable troubleshooting and knowledge transfer.
• Partner with governance and compliance teams to ensure incidents are documented and remediated in line with internal policy.
• Contribute to retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts to harden production systems.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in production support, site reliability engineering (SRE), or DevOps—preferably supporting Apigee APIs.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure ( GCP preferred) and observability tools
• Proficiency in Python or shell scripting for automation and troubleshooting.
• Strong analytical, communication, and incident management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and JavaScript
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD tools and Alerts/Monitoring automation
• Familiarity with API integrations.

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Ability to work proactively with a high level of initiative and accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments effectively and meet established deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact professionally with staff and stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Critical thinking ability ranging from moderately to highly complex tasks.
• Flexibility in adapting to changing business needs and priorities.
• Ability to work creatively and independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to utilize experience and judgment in accomplishing goals.
• Experience in navigating organizational structures and collaborating across teams.

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. If you wish to request reasonable accommodations related to applying for employment or provide feedback about the accessibility of this website, please contact jobs@globalpay.com