Raydar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
$180K–$250K
New York, New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- At least five years in reliability or infrastructure engineering; hands-on experience as a founding SRE or building and leading an engineering team.
- Education
- A university degree is required.
About the job
Design, operate, and improve production infrastructure, while leading incident response and setting engineering standards for the infrastructure team.
What you'll do
- Build and operate secure cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, tuning compute, storage, and networking for reliability, performance, and cost.
- Create deployment pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation for safe releases and provisioning.
- Lead incident response and reliability practices, and mentor engineers while shaping team standards.
What they ask for
- At least five years in reliability or infrastructure engineering operating heavily loaded live systems.
- Hands-on experience as a founding SRE or building and leading an engineering team.
- Hands-on cloud platform and Kubernetes experience, plus platform engineering or DevOps work; track record automating software releases and provisioning.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, Python proficiency, solid understanding of hosted networks, data stores, and access controls, and a university degree.
Nice to have
- Experience at high-growth startups, large technology companies, or core infrastructure companies.
- Exposure to declarative provisioning tools.
Pay
$180K - $250K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Python
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