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  • Raydar
  • New York, NY
  • Full-Time
  • 5 days ago
  • $200,000–$265,000 / year
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Site Reliability Engineering Lead.

DevOps & Engineering Full-Time

Site Reliability Engineering Lead: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for an engineer who keeps cloud infrastructure and software releases reliable and secure at a growing financial technology business.
  • The Person:The person will take end-to-end responsibility for cloud environments and every release to production while working with founders to scope infrastructure and security initiatives and running containerized workloads on a managed Kubernetes platform.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, infrastructure as code tooling, containerized workloads on a managed Kubernetes service, and relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.

About the role

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

Published November 7, 2026
Location New York, NY
Category DevOps & Engineering  
Job Type Full-Time