Remote Lead SRE: Scale Reliability at FinTech

Empower LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Empower LLC is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across our financial services platform. You will lead SREs, set technical standards, and guide infrastructure strategy in a fast-paced, remote environment.

You will architect multi-region AWS infra, define SLOs, lead major incidents, and champion observability through Datadog/Splunk while mentoring teams and collaborating with engineering and security groups.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field or equivalent practical experience
• 7–10 years of SRE experience with proven technical leadership
• Expert-level AWS knowledge for large-scale multi-region architectures
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including security and production-scale operations
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and shared platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives aligned with business priorities
• Define and evolve SRE best practices, tools, and standards
• Architect enterprise-scale multi-region AWS infrastructure balancing reliability, cost, and security
• Establish SLOs and error budgets for critical services
• Lead major incidents as incident commander and drive postmortems
• Design disaster recovery and chaos engineering plans for critical systems
• Develop foundational infrastructure patterns with Terraform and reusable modules
• Implement advanced Kubernetes patterns with security policies and multi-tenancy
• Establish observability standards using Datadog and Splunk
• Oversee CI/CD standards and pipeline-as-code at scale
• Drive FinOps to optimize cloud spend without compromising reliability
• Mentor SREs and lead architectural reviews

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

Datadog

Splunk

CI/CD

Incident Response

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Empower LLC is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across our financial services platform. You will lead SREs, set technical standards, and guide infrastructure strategy in a fast-paced, remote environment.

You will architect multi-region AWS infra, define SLOs, lead major incidents, and champion observability through Datadog/Splunk while mentoring teams and collaborating with engineering and security groups.