# Site Reliability Engineering Lead

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-07

**Salary:** USD 200,000–265,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

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

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/608EC241EF/apply)

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