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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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7 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$114k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives across multiple value streams and coordinate execution across teams.
  • Define and evolve SRE best practices, tools, and methodologies across the organization.
  • Architect enterprise-scale, multi-region AWS infrastructure balancing reliability, cost, performance, and security.
  • Establish and operate SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical services.
  • Serve as incident commander for major incidents and lead postmortems with completed action items.
  • Lead disaster recovery planning for critical financial services infrastructure.
  • Build shared Terraform Infrastructure as Code foundations, including reusable modules, standards, and patterns.
  • Design and implement production-scale Kubernetes patterns, including multi-tenancy, security policies, and advanced scheduling.
  • Establish observability standards using Datadog and Splunk for metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Set CI/CD standards and patterns, including pipeline-as-code and progressive delivery at scale.
  • Lead chaos engineering, game days, and systematic reliability testing initiatives.
  • Drive FinOps initiatives to optimize cloud spend while maintaining reliability targets.
  • Lead a functional team of SREs without direct reports on projects and operational initiatives.
  • Mentor SREs at multiple levels through coaching, design reviews, code reviews, and training sessions.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership on reliability priorities, zero-trust architecture, and compliance controls.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7–10 years of Site Reliability Engineering experience or equivalent, with demonstrated technical leadership.
  • Proven ability to lead technical teams and drive complex projects to completion.
  • Expert AWS knowledge, including large-scale, multi-region architecture design.
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise, including advanced features, security, and production-scale operations.
  • Mastery of Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, including shared platforms and frameworks.
  • Production software engineering experience with Python and/or Go.
  • Extensive experience with Datadog, Splunk, and monitoring at scale.
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD principles and enterprise-grade pipeline implementation.
  • Experience leading major incidents and conducting effective postmortems.
  • Strong understanding of security, networking, and infrastructure design patterns.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and building technical capabilities in teams.
  • Preferred qualifications include prior Lead or Staff SRE/Operational Excellence leadership, financial services experience, compliance knowledge, AWS or Kubernetes certifications, experience implementing SRE in organizations with 500+ engineers, chaos engineering experience, open-source community leadership, service mesh experience, and technical speaking or writing experience.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions up to 6%, potential discretionary contributions, financial advisory services, and a broad investment lineup.
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.
  • Generous paid time off upon hire, including paid company holidays and floating holidays.
  • Paid volunteer time of 16 hours per calendar year.
  • Paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and FMLA leave programs.
  • Business Resource Groups open to all employees.
  • Flexible work environment with reliable high-speed wired internet required for remote and hybrid positions; office work may be required if the home environment or connectivity is inadequate.
  • Other necessary computer equipment will be provided.

Tech Stack

Categories

Site Reliability
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