Lead SRE: Scale, Resilience & Cloud Automation

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems across cloud infrastructure. You will lead incident response, design resilient architectures, and collaborate with software engineering teams to implement best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, and security.

Bring deep experience in Java, Python, Node.js, microservices, and AWS, with a track record of scaling large production systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Microservices

Distributed systems

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

SAST/DAST

Security

Monitoring

AWS X-Ray

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

CloudWatch

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems across cloud infrastructure. You will lead incident response, design resilient architectures, and collaborate with software engineering teams to implement best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, and security.

Bring deep experience in Java, Python, Node.js, microservices, and AWS, with a track record of scaling large production systems.