Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 7, 2026. Raydar scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the company
Our client is a financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take end-to-end responsibility for cloud environments, release pipelines and security controls for a growing software business. The role works in person alongside the founding leadership group, scoping and delivering infrastructure and security initiatives with the engineering team.
What you'll do
- Take end-to-end responsibility for cloud environments and every release to production.
- Work with the founders to scope infrastructure and security initiatives that contribute to the business.
- Run containerized workloads on a managed Kubernetes platform in live environments.
- Collaborate with the engineering team in person, five days a week.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience owning an infrastructure stack or major infrastructure components at a high-growth technology company.
- Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure on AWS and with infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Prior work operating containerized workloads on a managed Kubernetes service.
- Experience as an SRE, infrastructure engineer or backend engineer at an infrastructure-focused company.
- Experience managing relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.
- An engineering degree in any discipline.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with SOC 2 compliance requirements.
- A degree from a top-50 school.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 265,000 per year
- Equity
- Relocation support
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan with employer matching
- Flexible time off
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, five days a week in office
- Full-time