Staff 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. Serve as the senior individual contributor accountable for the reliability, delivery and security of a production cloud platform. The work involves finding gaps in infrastructure and release processes, proposing fixes to senior leadership and carrying them through to measurable improvements.

What you'll do

• Review the infrastructure and deployment pipeline early on so that fixes are released safely and correctly.
• Identify reliability and delivery gaps, present a remediation plan to senior leadership and drive it to completion.
• Improve uptime and deployment speed in measurable ways without compromising security.
• Own service level objectives, incident response, observability and disaster recovery against a very high availability target.
• Secure the cloud and container orchestration environment and produce evidence for compliance audits and financial-sector regulatory frameworks.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 5 to 10 years of experience in platform, infrastructure or reliability engineering.
• A proven record of designing and operating production systems, including ownership of core infrastructure, automation and deployment workflows.
• Experience owning production infrastructure security, including identity and access management, secrets, network policy and audit or compliance work, ideally in a regulated environment.
• Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript.
• Deep hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production on AWS, including service mesh and GitOps-based delivery.
• Track record of keeping systems available and dependable, using service-level targets and failure-budget thinking to guide decisions.
• Regular, deep use of modern AI coding tools in day-to-day work.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Bonus points

• Prior time at a smaller company in its formative years, ideally in a very early engineering role.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 240,000 to 320,000 per year
• Equity

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in office
• Full-time