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Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Flinks is a financial data aggregator and open banking platform that enables businesses to connect to their customers' financial accounts, enrich data, and deliver innovative digital financial products and services.

Flinks

Employee count: 51-200

Canada only

About Flinks 🚀

Flinks is where financial data moves—with purpose, trust, and impact.

We’re on a mission to simplify access to financial data and help businesses build better, faster, and more secure financial products and experiences. Since 2016, we’ve been bridging the gap between fintechs, financial institutions, and consumers by enabling seamless, secure data connectivity.

From instant account funding to smarter lending, our solutions help power some of the most innovative financial products in North America. We partner with lenders, banks, and fintechs to streamline onboarding, prevent fraud, and fuel real-time decision-making with enriched, reliable data.

As pioneers in Canada’s open banking movement, we're not waiting for the future—we're building it. If you're bold, curious, and ready to help shape the future of finance, we’d love to meet you.

What You'll Be Doing 🔥

As the Observability SRE, you will own the end-to-end observability, monitoring, and reliability strategy across all Flinks product lines. Your mission is to ensure every product—Data Connectivity, Payments, Enrichment, and Document Services—has the right telemetry, actionable alerts, and reliability insights.

  • Company-wide Observability & Monitoring: Define and maintain an observability framework across products; ensure coverage for APIs, scraping systems, payments, enrichment, and document services; establish SLIs/SLOs aligned to client expectations.
  • Alerting & Incident Management: Build consistent, low-noise alerting rules; integrate observability into Incident.io workflows; lead cross-product RCA; maintain a “single source of truth” for reliability metrics.
  • Reliability Analysis & Insights: Deliver monthly/quarterly scorecards linking reliability to client outcomes (e.g., churn risk, adoption blockers); analyze trends and recurring failures; translate data into executive insights.
  • Automation & AI-Enabled Observability: Automate anomaly detection, escalation, and self-healing; partner with the AI team; optimize logging and monitoring spend.
  • Collaboration & Enablement: Champion observability practices across teams; train PMs, QA, and Engineers; ensure insights influence roadmaps; collaborate with Tech Leadership to build observability in from the start.

Who You Are đź’Ş

  • Experience: 5–8 years in SRE, Observability, or Reliability roles, ideally across multiple product environments (fintech, SaaS, or data platforms).
  • Technical Skills: Strong in observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ELK); Hands on experience with tracing and profiling tools (APM, OTEL, Pyroscope); experience with distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines; strong automation skills (Kubernetes).
  • Strong programming skills with working knowledge of at least one programming language; C# and Go are preferred, but experience in other languages will also be considered valuable.
  • Mindset:
    • Systems thinker who sees the big picture.
    • Business-aware, connecting reliability to retention and profitability.
    • Proactive, anticipating failures before they occur.
    • Collaborative, working across product, QA, engineering, and reliability.

Great to haves

  • Experience in fintech or high-availability SaaS environments.
  • Familiarity with payments infrastructure and fraud detection systems.
  • Contributions to open-source observability tools or frameworks.

Why This Role Matters at Flinks đź’ˇ

  • Ensures all products have consistent reliability and observability standards.
  • Provides a single source of truth for performance and reliability across the org.
  • Directly improves client trust, profitability, and operational efficiency.
  • Enables proactive stability management across Flinks’ core product lines.
  • Supports our shift to a cohesive, reliable, platform-first mindset at scale.

The Interview Process 🏗

  • Head of People
  • Director of IT Ops
  • Technical Challenge
  • Panel Interview

À propos de Flinks 🚀

Flinks est l’endroit où les données financières circulent — avec intention, confiance et impact.

Notre mission est de simplifier l’accès aux données financières et d’aider les entreprises à bâtir des produits et des expériences financières meilleurs, plus rapides et plus sécurisés. Depuis 2016, nous comblons le fossé entre les fintechs, les institutions financières et les consommateurs en permettant une connectivité aux données fluide et sécurisée.

De l’alimentation instantanée de comptes aux prêts plus intelligents, nos solutions propulsent certains des produits financiers les plus innovants en Amérique du Nord. Nous collaborons avec des prêteurs, des banques et des fintechs pour simplifier l’intégration, prévenir la fraude et alimenter la prise de décision en temps réel grâce à des données fiables et enrichies.

En tant que pionniers du mouvement de l’open banking au Canada, nous n’attendons pas l’avenir — nous le construisons. Si vous êtes audacieux·se, curieux·se et prêt·e à contribuer à façonner l’avenir de la finance, nous serions ravis de vous rencontrer

Ce que vous ferez 🔥

En tant que SRE Observabilité, vous serez responsable de la stratégie d’observabilité, de surveillance et de fiabilité de bout en bout pour toutes les lignes de produits de Flinks. Votre mission est de garantir que chaque produit — Connectivité de données, Paiements, Enrichissement et Services de documents — dispose de la bonne télémétrie, d’alertes exploitables et d’indicateurs de fiabilité.

  • ObservabilitĂ© et surveillance Ă  l’échelle de l’entreprise : DĂ©finir et maintenir un cadre d’observabilitĂ© Ă  travers les produits; assurer la couverture des API, systèmes de scraping, paiements, enrichissement et services documentaires; Ă©tablir des SLIs/SLOs alignĂ©s sur les attentes des clients.
  • Alertes et gestion des incidents : Construire des règles d’alerte cohĂ©rentes et Ă  faible bruit; intĂ©grer l’observabilitĂ© dans les flux de travail Incident.io; diriger les RCA inter-produits; maintenir une “source unique de vĂ©rité” pour les mĂ©triques de fiabilitĂ©.
  • Analyse et insights de fiabilitĂ© : Produire des rapports mensuels/trimestriels reliant la fiabilitĂ© aux rĂ©sultats clients (ex. : risque de churn, freins Ă  l’adoption); analyser les tendances et Ă©checs rĂ©currents; traduire les donnĂ©es en insights stratĂ©giques pour la direction.
  • Automatisation et observabilitĂ© augmentĂ©e par l’IA : Automatiser la dĂ©tection d’anomalies, l’escalade et l’auto-rĂ©paration; collaborer avec l’équipe IA; optimiser les coĂ»ts de journalisation et de monitoring.
  • Collaboration et accompagnement : Promouvoir les bonnes pratiques d’observabilitĂ© dans toutes les Ă©quipes; former les PM, QA et IngĂ©nieurs; s’assurer que les insights influencent les roadmaps; collaborer avec la direction technologique pour intĂ©grer l’observabilitĂ© dès la conception.

Profil recherché 💪

Expérience

  • 5 Ă  8 ans d’expĂ©rience en SRE, ObservabilitĂ© ou FiabilitĂ©, idĂ©alement dans des environnements multi-produits (fintech, SaaS ou plateformes de donnĂ©es).

Compétences techniques

  • Solide maĂ®trise des outils d’observabilitĂ© (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • ExpĂ©rience pratique avec les outils de traçage et de profilage (APM, OTEL, Pyroscope).
  • Connaissance des systèmes distribuĂ©s, des APIs et des pipelines de donnĂ©es.
  • CompĂ©tences avancĂ©es en automatisation (Kubernetes).
  • Solides compĂ©tences en programmation, avec maĂ®trise d’au moins un langage; C# et Go sont privilĂ©giĂ©s, mais l’expĂ©rience avec d’autres langages est Ă©galement valorisĂ©e.

État d’esprit

  • Penseur systĂ©mique, capable de voir la vue d’ensemble.
  • OrientĂ© affaires, reliant fiabilitĂ© Ă  rĂ©tention et rentabilitĂ©.
  • Proactif, anticipant les dĂ©faillances avant qu’elles ne surviennent.
  • Collaboratif, travaillant Ă  travers Produit, QA, IngĂ©nierie et FiabilitĂ©.

Atouts

  • ExpĂ©rience dans la fintech ou les environnements SaaS haute disponibilitĂ©.
  • FamiliaritĂ© avec l’infrastructure de paiements et les systèmes de dĂ©tection de fraude.
  • Contributions Ă  des outils ou frameworks d’observabilitĂ© open source.

Pourquoi ce rĂ´le est essentiel chez Flinks đź’ˇ

  • Garantit que tous les produits disposent de normes de fiabilitĂ© et d’observabilitĂ© cohĂ©rentes.
  • Fournit une source unique de vĂ©ritĂ© pour la performance et la fiabilitĂ© Ă  travers l’organisation.
  • AmĂ©liore directement la confiance des clients, la rentabilitĂ© et l’efficacitĂ© opĂ©rationnelle.
  • Permet une gestion proactive de la stabilitĂ© pour les lignes de produits principales de Flinks.
  • Soutient notre passage Ă  une mentalitĂ© cohĂ©rente, fiable et platform-first Ă  grande Ă©chelle.

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Flinks is a financial data aggregator and open banking platform headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 2016 by Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf, Frédérick Lavoie, and Julien Cousineau, the company aims to empower businesses with the tools and data infrastructure needed to create innovative financial experiences. Flinks enables businesses to securely connect to their customers' financial accounts, enrich this data, and utilize it to deliver smarter, more personalized digital products and services. The platform supports connections to a vast network of financial institutions across Canada and the United States, encompassing retail and business banking, as well as wealth management.

Flinks plays a crucial role in the evolving landscape of open finance, advocating for a system where individuals and businesses have full control over their financial data, thereby unlocking access to a wider range of services and fostering innovation. The company's technology allows for the validation of account ownership, verification of account balances, and access to transaction histories, which are essential for various financial applications such as lending, fintech solutions, digital banking, asset management, and insurance. By facilitating secure, consent-driven data sharing, Flinks helps businesses streamline processes like customer onboarding and account funding, while also mitigating risks associated with fraud and insufficient funds. In August 2021, National Bank of Canada acquired a majority stake in Flinks, a move that provided significant capital to accelerate the company's expansion into the United States and enhance its reach across North America. Flinks serves a diverse clientele, from startups to established financial institutions, and is recognized as a leader in financial data portability and analytics.

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