# Staff Site Reliability Engineer > Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-20 **Salary:** USD 240,000–320,000 **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. 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 ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/8FB1AA17E4/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)