The Role
Design, implement, and maintain centralized observability pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) using OpenTelemetry. Build self-service tooling, automate observability infrastructure with IaC, support incident management, optimize alerting, collaborate across teams to define SLOs/SLA, and ensure infrastructure reliability and security.
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Why should you join dLocal?
dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest-growing, emerging markets.
By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000+ teammates from 30+ different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of people’s daily lives. We are builders, we never run from a challenge, we are customer-centric, and if this sounds like you, we know you will thrive in our team.
What's the opportunity?
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team! As our Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be focused on the design, implementation and continuous maintenance of our centralized observability platform using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) as its backend. You will be part of a talented team that works on mission-critical applications with big customers like Netflix, Amazon, Nike, Facebook & more!
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you are always expected to ask the necessary questions:
What data do we need to understand how our systems are performing?
How do we collect this data?
What patterns are we looking for in the data and what do they mean?
Who should be notified when a certain system is not working properly?
Do we have any systems that we need more data for?
An SRE engineer designs systems and processes to answer the questions above and to provide automated support and response where possible.
What will you do?
- Own OpenTelemetry Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain observability pipelines across the three main signals—logs, metrics, and traces—ensuring standardized, scalable, and efficient data ingestion. Optimize ingestion strategies to balance cost, performance, and usability.
- Empower Engineering Teams: Build self-service automation and tooling that enables development teams to instrument and leverage observability without requiring manual intervention from the SRE team. Drive adoption of best practices while ensuring teams own their telemetry.
- Support Incident Management: Be the Engineering side of our Incident Management Team, designing the processes, playbooks, checklists, and automations for them and other engineers to follow during an incident.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Interact with members from almost all teams across the business to understand their monitoring, alerting and SLO / SLA requirements and design systems and processes that ensure we meet or exceed these requirements. Influence architectural decisions during initial design stages to ensure resiliency and scale at the outset of software development.
- Automate Observability Infrastructure: Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to provision and manage monitoring tools, alerting rules, and our observability configurations across OTEL Pipelines.
- Define Baseline Observability Standards: Design base level requirements for new and existing services to ensure that all dLocal infrastructure and code are monitored consistently and accurately at a basic level.
- Own Technical and Security Health: Take full ownership of dLocal’s infrastructure reliability, ensuring adherence to key availability and security KPIs.
- Optimize Alerting Systems: Continuously refine alerting signals to minimize noise and ensure them are always actionable, reducing fatigue and improving response efficiency.
Which skill do you need?
- Over 4 years’ of experience as SRE Engineer or in a very similar role more focused on observability.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, including its core components, deployment methodologies, and monitoring best practices.
- Some understanding of OpenTelemetry, including setting up OTEL collectors, instrumentation, and pipeline optimization.
- Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, New Relic, or Datadog.
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform) and GitOps CI/CD solutions (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Experience integrating incident management platforms (PagerDuty, Jira) with automated alerting workflows.
- Strong scripting abilities (Python, Go, or similar) for automating observability tasks.
- A problem-solving mindset, with the ability to collaborate across multi-functional teams to drive reliability improvements.
- Cloud experience, especially AWS and ECS-based workloads.
- Experience managing observability pipelines at scale in high-throughput environments.
- Familiarity with Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Chef, or SaltStack) for managing configurations across legacy instances.
- Database performance monitoring experience, particularly in large-scale distributed environments.
You will stand out if you have:
What do we offer?
Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you:
- Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance.
- Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity.
- Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
- Social budget: you'll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!
- dLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team? We’ve got your back!
Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs.
What happens after you apply?
Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
Also, you can check out our webpage, Linkedin and Youtube for more about dLocal!
Skills Required
- Over 4 years of experience as an SRE or in a role focused on observability
- Expertise in Kubernetes, including core components and deployment methodologies
- Practical understanding and experience setting up OpenTelemetry collectors, instrumentation, and pipeline optimization
- Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, New Relic, or Datadog)
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform) and GitOps / CI-CD solutions (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)
- Experience integrating incident management platforms (PagerDuty, Jira) with automated alerting workflows
- Strong scripting abilities (Python, Go, or similar) for automation
- Ability to design incident management processes, playbooks, checklists, and automations
- Cloud experience, especially AWS and ECS-based workloads
- Experience managing observability pipelines at scale in high-throughput environments
- Familiarity with Configuration-as-Code tools (Ansible, Chef, or SaltStack)
- Database performance monitoring experience in large-scale distributed environments
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The Company
What We Do
dLocal started with one goal – to close the payments innovation gap between global enterprise companies, and customers in emerging economies. We have over 900 payment methods, in more than 40 countries. With the ability to accept local payment methods and facilitate cross-border fund settlement worldwide, our merchants reach billions of underserved consumers in the high-growth markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. dLocal offers the ideal payment solutions for global commerce: Payins: Accept local payment methods Payouts: Compliantly send funds cross-border Defense Suite: Manage fraud effectively dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution Local Issuing: Localize payments for your gig-economy workers, suppliers, and partners
