Lead Site Reliability Engineer — Cloud & DevOps Leadership (Onsite SF)

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team and drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will design, build, and maintain highly available cloud-based services, lead incident response, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

Key qualifications include 7+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Java/Python/Node.js skills, Terraform and Kubernetes, and experience with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• 3+ years in a lead or senior technical position.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale production systems.
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.
• GenAI based Applications: Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic applications a plus.
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering principles and practices.
• Background in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient systems across cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure optimal system performance.
• Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Develop monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks.
• Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST).
• Mentor junior SRE team members and promote SRE culture across the organization.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Microservices

Distributed systems

Incident management

Agile/Scrum

GenAI basics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Splunk

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Job description

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team and drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will design, build, and maintain highly available cloud-based services, lead incident response, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

Key qualifications include 7+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Java/Python/Node.js skills, Terraform and Kubernetes, and experience with