Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud, Automation & Resilience

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

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. The role emphasizes cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and strong software engineering fundamentals to ensure high availability.

The candidate will own incident response, disaster recovery planning, and cost optimization while mentoring a growing SRE team and collaborating with software engineers to implement reliability best

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.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management.
• Build and maintain internal tools and services to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement reliability best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance on system design.
• Develop monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks.
• Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST).
• Implement and maintain security controls across infrastructure and applications.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct security assessments and vulnerability management.
• Mentor junior SRE team members and promote SRE culture across the organization.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve system reliability.
• Drive technical initiatives and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Document processes, runbooks, and technical specifications.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Microservices

Distributed systems

Data structures

Algorithms

Clean code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Grafana

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. The role emphasizes cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and strong software engineering fundamentals to ensure high availability.

The candidate will own incident response, disaster recovery planning, and cost optimization while mentoring a growing SRE team and collaborating with software engineers to implement reliability best