- Raydar
- New York, NY
- Full-Time
- 4 days ago
- $180,000–$250,000
Senior Site Reliability Engineer.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This is a senior reliability engineering role for an experienced engineer supporting the production infrastructure of a software platform.
- The Person:The person will design and operate production infrastructure, tune compute, storage, and networking for reliability and cost, build deployment pipelines and automation, lead incident response and postmortems, and mentor engineers while setting infrastructure standards.
- Requirements:Candidates need at least five years in reliability or infrastructure engineering, experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes, release-workflow automation, Python, and knowledge of networks, data stores, and access controls.
About the role
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