Lead SRE – Cloud, Automation & Resilience

Federal Reserve System; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. The role blends software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps to meet high availability standards.

The selected candidate will work onsite in San Francisco, with a base salary range reflecting District/SF norms and opportunities for growth. Strong leadership and mentoring skills are essential for this team.

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 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.
• Build and maintain internal tools and services to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement reliability best practices.
• Develop monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks.
• Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST) and maintain controls.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

On-call rotations

Agile/Scrum

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Python

Node.js

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch/X-Ray

Grafana/Datadog

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. The role blends software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps to meet high availability standards.

The selected candidate will work onsite in San Francisco, with a base salary range reflecting District/SF norms and opportunities for growth. Strong leadership and mentoring skills are essential for this team.