Senior SRE Lead — Cloud Reliability & Automation

rb; San Francisco (CA); 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 the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems. This role combines deep technical expertise in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices to ensure our services meet high standards of availability.

The selected candidate will design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS, lead incident response, and collaborate

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 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 monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks.
• Mentor junior SRE team members and promote SRE culture.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Distributed systems

Data structures

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

GitLab (CI/CD)

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Splunk

AWS

Job description

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team and drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems. This role combines deep technical expertise in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices to ensure our services meet high standards of availability.

The selected candidate will design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS, lead incident response, and collaborate