Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Define the strategy, architecture and roadmap for the SRE function, aligning infrastructure initiatives with product and business goals
• ▹Lead the design, deployment and optimization of production-grade containerized workloads, infrastructure-as-code and compliant cloud environments for regulated domains (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD)
• ▹Establish and evolve observability, monitoring and alerting frameworks for performance, reliability and capacity planning at scale
• ▹Drive incident management processes, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis and systemic reliability improvements
• ▹Partner with security and compliance teams to meet data sovereignty, security and regulatory requirements
• ▹Champion automation and operational excellence to improve efficiency, reduce risk and scale operations
• ▹Oversee cloud cost management and capacity planning to optimize spending while meeting performance targets
• ▹Build and maintain a developer platform that enables fast, secure software delivery and improves application stability in production
• ▹Mentor and coach SRE team members, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration and technical excellence

Requirements

• ▹BS in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years in site reliability engineering, DevOps or cloud infrastructure roles
• ▹Proven expertise in container orchestration platforms, ideally Kubernetes
• ▹Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform
• ▹Strong background in cloud platforms, ideally AWS
• ▹Demonstrated experience designing and implementing monitoring, alerting and performance optimization strategies
• ▹Exceptional troubleshooting and incident management skills for distributed systems
• ▹Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language for automation
• ▹Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing cross-functional teams
• ▹Experience leading globally distributed teams in a remote-first environment
• ▹This role may require obtaining and maintaining a U.S. government security clearance, and candidates must meet federal eligibility requirements
• ▹Applicants must meet eligibility requirements for access to export-controlled information under U.S. export control laws (EAR and ITAR)

Nice to have

• ▹Familiarity with observability stacks such as Grafana and Prometheus
• ▹Experience designing high-availability, disaster recovery and scaling architectures
• ▹Exposure to GCP and Azure cloud environments
• ▹Leadership experience in highly regulated industries such as defense, finance or critical infrastructure
• ▹Experience with U.S. federal compliance frameworks and authorization processes (FedRAMP, DoD ATO, NIST 800-53 and related standards)
• ▹Experience preparing, delivering and maintaining software offerings through AWS Marketplace and other cloud marketplaces (Azure, Google Cloud)
• ▹Open-source contributions in reliability, DevOps or infrastructure tooling
• ▹Certifications in cloud infrastructure, reliability or DevOps engineering (e.g., CKA, CKAD, AWS Certified Solutions Architect)

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Salary range of $145,000-$200,000 (market-based pay)
• ▹Remote-first, open-source company