Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Design, run and improve the production infrastructure that a software platform depends on, with a focus on reliability, availability and cost. The role combines hands-on building with incident leadership and setting engineering standards for the infrastructure team.

What you'll do

- Design and operate secure production infrastructure on a major public cloud and Kubernetes that scales and stays dependable.

- Manage compute, storage and networking, tuning for uptime, performance and cost.

- Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and automation that help developers ship changes safely.

- Lead incident response, including on-call rotations, postmortems, root cause analysis and reliability targets.

- Mentor engineers and help shape the standards and culture of the infrastructure team.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- At least five years in reliability or infrastructure engineering, operating systems that carry heavy load in live environments.

- Hands-on experience as a founding SRE or in building and leading an engineering team.

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes, plus platform engineering or DevOps work.

- Track record of automating software release workflows and provisioning.

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python.

- Solid grasp of how networks, data stores and access controls behave in a hosted environment.

- A university degree is required.

Bonus points

- Experience at high-growth startups, large technology companies or core infrastructure companies.

- Exposure to declarative provisioning tools is a plus.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $180K - $250K

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Life insurance

- Unlimited paid time off

- Paid company holidays

- Parental leave

- Retirement plan

- Commuter benefits

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days a week in the office

- Full-time