# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-26

**Salary:** USD 180,000–250,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

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

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/4593E5521F/apply)

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