About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Design, run and improve the production infrastructure that a software platform depends on, with a focus on reliability, availability and cost. The role combines hands-on building with incident leadership and setting engineering standards for the infrastructure team.
What you'll do
- Design and operate secure production infrastructure on a major public cloud and Kubernetes that scales and stays dependable.
- Manage compute, storage and networking, tuning for uptime, performance and cost.
- Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and automation that help developers ship changes safely.
- Lead incident response, including on-call rotations, postmortems, root cause analysis and reliability targets.
- Mentor engineers and help shape the standards and culture of the infrastructure team.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least five years in reliability or infrastructure engineering, operating systems that carry heavy load in live environments.
- Hands-on experience as a founding SRE or in building and leading an engineering team.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes, plus platform engineering or DevOps work.
- Track record of automating software release workflows and provisioning.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python.
- Solid grasp of how networks, data stores and access controls behave in a hosted environment.
- A university degree is required.
Bonus points
- Experience at high-growth startups, large technology companies or core infrastructure companies.
- Exposure to declarative provisioning tools is a plus.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $180K - $250K
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Unlimited paid time off
- Paid company holidays
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Commuter benefits
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week in the office
- Full-time
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