About the Role
Are you a seasoned SRE and Security expert ready to make a significant impact? Join a well-funded, Series A/B SportsTech innovator building a cutting-edge, commission-free, peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange. We're seeking a Lead Site Reliability & Security Engineer to anchor our hands-on, cross-functional engineering team in New York. This isn't just a role; it's a mission to secure and scale a regulated, exchange-grade trading platform. You'll take full ownership of disaster recovery, pioneering observability frameworks, and embedding security-by-design at every layer. Your expertise will ensure our high-throughput platform remains resilient, compliant, and always available for our users.
What You'll Do
Architect & Own Core Systems: Design, implement, and lead the charge on disaster recovery, reliability, and cutting-edge observability frameworks crucial for our regulated trading platform.
Champion Security-by-Design: Spearhead and implement proactive security infrastructure initiatives, ensuring a robust security posture is intrinsically woven into every facet of our engineering ecosystem.
Drive Automation & Efficiency: Revolutionize our recovery and reliability processes, leveraging sophisticated infrastructure-as-code to build self-healing and auto-scaling systems.
Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate closely with product and compliance teams, translating regulatory requirements into resilient technical solutions that guarantee exchange-grade uptime and impeccable auditability.
Bridge SRE & Security: Serve as the critical link, fostering seamless integration and communication between reliability engineering and security operations to create a unified and impenetrable platform.
What We're Looking For
Dealbreakers (must-haves):
5+ Years of Blended Expertise: A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience combining Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and security engineering, specifically within dynamic cloud environments.
Regulated Platform DR Mastery: A verifiable track record of designing, implementing, and managing robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans for regulated trading platforms.
Required skills & experience
Leadership & Collaborative Influence: Demonstrated leadership in guiding technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and fostering effective cross-functional collaboration, with exceptional clarity in communicating complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Observability Visionary: Extensive experience in architecting and deploying comprehensive observability strategies (metrics, logs, tracing) that empower proactive monitoring and ensure reliability at enterprise scale.
IaC & Cloud Orchestration: Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, for managing complex cloud infrastructure.
Incident Response & Resilience: Proven strength in incident response, including swift root-cause analysis, effective mitigation, and meticulous post-incident reporting.
Security-by-Design Evangelist: Deep-seated knowledge of security best practices spanning all infrastructure layers, coupled with an unwavering security-by-design mindset.
Event-Streaming Expertise: Hands-on experience with high-throughput event-streaming systems, particularly Kafka or comparable technologies.
Database Fluency: Practical, hands-on experience managing and optimizing both relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $185,000 – $235,000 USD annually, commensurate with experience.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location
This role is based in New York, NY. On-site or hybrid presence is expected. This is not a fully remote position.
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