Lead Site Reliability Engineer

10 days ago

Richmond, VA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$147k - $234k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud systems.
Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs and lead incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans for critical systems.
Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and optimize cloud resource utilization and cost.
Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.
Build internal tools and services, develop monitoring and alerting solutions, and improve observability.
Collaborate with software engineering teams on reliability practices, system design, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
Integrate security practices into pipelines, maintain infrastructure and application controls, and conduct security assessments and vulnerability management.
Mentor junior SREs, promote SRE culture, document runbooks and technical specifications, and drive technical initiatives.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
At least 3 years in a lead or senior technical position.
Strong proficiency in Java, Python, and Node.js, with experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
Experience with large-scale production systems, microservices, distributed systems, serverless architectures, and event-driven systems.
Extensive AWS experience and advanced Terraform skills.
Expert-level GitLab knowledge, including CI/CD pipelines, runners, and GitOps.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or ECS, configuration management, monitoring, log aggregation, and distributed tracing.
Hands-on SAST experience and knowledge of DAST, OWASP Top 10, compliance frameworks, secrets management, and IAM.
Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.
Experience with chaos engineering, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certification is preferred.
Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic applications is a plus.

Full-time, regular, exempt position.
The selected candidate must reside within a reasonable commuting distance and work full-time onsite.
Eligible hiring locations are Richmond, Virginia, and San Francisco, California; San Francisco and Richmond are preferred locations for the System IT team.
Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants and employees with disabilities.
The Federal Reserve Bank is an equal opportunity employer.

10,000+ employees