Deputy of Reliability, Observability, and Control Lead
About The Role:
The Deputy of Reliability Oversight & Control is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the Company’s production reliability, observability, and quality control frameworks. This role ensures operational resilience of software products in production and provides executive oversight of incident management, post-incident governance, and production quality assurance.
The role reports to the relevant executive leader or the General Director and acts as a key stakeholder in safeguarding service stability, customer impact, and operational excellence.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities):
Own the company-wide reliability and observability strategy, ensuring effective detection, escalation, and management of production incidents
Provide executive oversight of incident response, postmortem governance, root cause analysis, and problem management, ensuring sustainable corrective actions
Define and enforce standards for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, service documentation, and production readiness
Lead post-production quality governance, ensuring released products meet reliability and operational standards
Establish executive-level quality and reliability metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making
Ensure strong governance of Change Management and Release Management processes to minimize operational risk
Conduct strategic quality and reliability audits across supported products and services
Identify systemic risks, process inefficiencies, and reliability gaps, and drive cross-functional improvement initiatives
Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on reliability, operational risk, and production health
Leadership & Influence:
Lead and develop the Reliability Oversight & Control function, setting clear objectives, priorities, and accountability
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Compliance leadership
Promote a culture of operational excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
Represent the Company internally and externally on matters related to reliability and production quality, as required
What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role
Higher education in Information Technology or a related technical field
Senior-level experience in IT operations, production reliability, monitoring, SRE, DevOps or quality management
Proven experience leading technical teams or complex cross-functional initiatives
Practical experience designing, configuring or administering monitoring systems (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent)
Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures
Strong knowledge of observability principles, including metrics, logs and tracing
Hands-on experience with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortem processes
Understanding of SLI, SLO and SLA concepts and reliability engineering practices
Experience analysing system performance, stability and signal quality metrics
Knowledge of Change Management and Release Management principles
Skills in automating operational workflows, including scripting, API integrations and webhook-based logic
Strong analytical thinking, systems perspective and technical decision-making capability
Ability to translate technical insights into clear recommendations and actionable reports
Professional proficiency in English for technical documentation and cross-team communication
Authority & Accountability
Authority to implement and maintain technical reliability, observability and control standards defined by ROC
Accountability for technical correctness and effectiveness of monitoring, alerting and reliability tooling
Responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of reliability metrics, dashboards and analytical outputs
Stewardship of sensitive operational and monitoring data
Why Join Paysend?
Make a Global Impact: Directly impact millions of users worldwide
Accelerate Your Career: Benefit from internal mobility, mentoring programs, and continuous learning opportunities
Thrive in a Connected, Global Organization: Collaborate with colleagues across our international hubs and more
Embrace a Principle-Driven & Focused Culture: Work in an organization guided by strong principles and values that actually help you achieve more than you thought possible
Enjoy Competitive Compensation and Benefits: Receive a competitive salary, benefits, and flexible work arrangements
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Belgrade
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Paysend
At Paysend, we’re on a mission to simplify cross-border payments for everyone by creating the world’s biggest open, instant digital payment network.
As a next-generation integrated global payment platform, we connect consumers and businesses to pay and send money online anywhere, anyhow, and in any currency.
Founded in 2017 with the introduction of card-to-card transfers, we now offer a comprehensive suite of financial solutions that go beyond traditional money transfers.With a global reach and offices in London, Belgrade, Dublin, and Miami, we’re proud to serve millions of customers in over 170 countries.
Our platform delivers interoperability across major card networks like Mastercard, Visa, and China UnionPay, as well as local payment schemes, connected by the largest digital payment network. We provide access to over 20 billion endpoints to make cross-border payments simple and accessible for everyone.But we’re not just about technology; we’re about people.
At Paysend, you’ll thrive in a connected, principle-driven culture that empowers you to solve complex challenges in the world of global finance. Join our talented global team and revolutionize the world of global payments while accelerating your career growth.
Paysend: Simplifying Cross-Border Payments for Everyone.