StraitsX is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer in STX - Engineering (Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia).
About the Role
The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team architects, builds, and maintains the rock-solid infrastructure that applications rely on. We work closely with development teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency. This collaboration empowers us to deliver exceptional customer experiences while enabling developers to focus on building great features.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy, automate, maintain, and manage various cloud-based and on-premises production systems.
- Understanding the high-level overview of our architecture, and possessing the ability to systematically document new and existing requirements to ensure a smooth project delivery without miscommunication.
- Work closely with the Information security and infrastructure team in ensuring that we are adopting security best practices.
- Ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and security of productions systems.
- Troubleshoot and resolve system issues across platform and application domains.
- Suggest architectural improvements and recommend process optimizations.
- Evaluate new technologies to enhance the infrastructure stack.
- Ensuring system security policies are properly remediated.
- Drive and implement automated provisioning and scaling of servers, along with testing and compliance checks using automation tools.
- Handle operational tasks, including on-call duties, alerts, and incident management.
What We Are Looking For
- At least 2 years of engineering experience.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., IT, Computer Science) or a proven track record in DevOps.
- A strong willingness to continuously upgrade skills and stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps trends.
- Experience with cloud-native tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, OpenTelemetry) is a plus.
- Experience managing cloud servers (AWS, GCP).
- A desire to transition into engineering management is a valued addition.
- Experience with on-premises physical servers, databases, and storage solutions (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis) is a plus, as well as familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
About StraitsX
StraitsX, founded in 2020 in Singapore as the stablecoin arm of payments company Xfers, issues XSGD and XIDR — the leading regulated Singapore dollar and Indonesian rupiah stablecoins licensed as a Major Payment Institution under Monetary Authority of Singapore oversight. Created by Xfers founders Tianwei Liu and Victor Liew, the platform powers cross-border B2B payments, on-off ramps and DeFi integrations through partnerships with DBS and regional banks. Focused on Southeast Asian compliance and banking rails, StraitsX enables programmable money movement for fintechs and institutions without handling user custody directly. Headquartered in Singapore at Ayer Rajah Crescent, the team bridges traditional finance and on-chain settlement with careful licensing. The culture values regulatory craft, payments reliability and building compliant stablecoin infrastructure for Southeast Asia.