Senior Data Engineer I

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Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments. We’ve scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.

Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,400+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 15 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

The Opportunity:

Flywire is seeking a Senior SRE / Cloud Platform Engineer to own, scale and secure the underlying cloud infrastructure powering our high-stakes payment intelligence and data platforms. You will serve as the cloud infrastructure anchor for our data engineering and AI initiatives, establishing best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD and platform reliability across AWS and GCP, reporting into the team led by our Hiring Manager, Roberto.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design, modularization and deployment of global cloud environments using Terraform across AWS and GCP, establishing enterprise-grade IaC best practices.

Platform Reliability & Observability: Define, monitor and enforce SLIs, SLOs and alerting frameworks for underlying data platforms to minimize MTTR and maximize uptime.

DevOps & CI/CD Automation: Architect robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration with Fargate and zero-manual-intervention deployment workflows.

Data Platform Enablement: Work with Data Engineering teams to provide secure, scalable cloud environments for Airflow, dbt, streaming feeds (Pub/Sub, Beam) and AI integrations.

Security & Cost Governance: Automate cloud access policies (RBAC/ABAC), network security and cost optimization for resource-heavy data workloads.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

Experience: 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or Cloud Platform Engineering, with proven experience building production cloud infrastructure at scale.

Deep Terraform Expertise: Master-level hands-on experience using Terraform to manage multi-account/multi-project setups in AWS and GCP.

Observability & Reliability: Strong experience setting up logging, monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).

CI/CD & Containers: Strong expertise with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Docker, including serverless container orchestration with Fargate.

Data Context: Experience provisioning or maintaining infrastructure for data tooling (e.g. PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka/PubSub) and basic proficiency in Python or Bash scripting.

Location: Based within a short commutable distance of Valencia, as this role requires regular weekly hybrid presence in our office.

What We Offer:

Competitive compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Competitive time off

Work with brilliant people globally Learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media

Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates

Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact

Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers, OneFlywire Career Mobility)

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We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.