Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the senior individual contributor accountable for the reliability, delivery and security of a production cloud platform. The work involves finding gaps in infrastructure and release processes, proposing fixes to senior leadership and carrying them through to measurable improvements. What you'll do - Review the infrastructure and deployment pipeline early on so that fixes are released safely and correctly. - Identify reliability and delivery gaps, present a remediation plan to senior leadership and drive it to completion. - Improve uptime and deployment speed in measurable ways without compromising security. - Own service level objectives, incident response, observability and disaster recovery against a very high availability target. - Secure the cloud and container orchestration environment and produce evidence for compliance audits and financial-sector regulatory frameworks. Requirements What we're looking for - 5 to 10 years of experience in platform, infrastructure or reliability engineering. - A proven record of designing and operating production systems, including ownership of core infrastructure, automation and deployment workflows. - Experience owning production infrastructure security, including identity and access management, secrets, network policy and audit or compliance work, ideally in a regulated environment. - Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript. - Deep hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production on AWS, including service mesh and GitOps-based delivery. - Track record of keeping systems available and dependable, using service-level targets and failure-budget thinking to guide decisions. - Regular, deep use of modern AI coding tools in day-to-day work. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Bonus points - Prior time at a smaller company in its formative years, ideally in a very early engineering role. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 240,000 to 320,000 per year - Equity Location and work model - San Francisco, CA, United States - On-site, 5 days per week in office - Full-time