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
Skills Required
- 5 to 10 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or reliability engineering
- Experience designing and operating production systems
- Ownership of core infrastructure, automation, and deployment workflows
- Experience securing production infrastructure, including identity and access management, secrets, network policy, and audit or compliance work
- Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript
- Deep hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production on AWS
- Experience with service mesh and GitOps-based delivery
- Experience using service-level targets and failure-budget thinking to maintain system availability
- Regular, deep use of modern AI coding tools
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- Prior experience at a smaller company in its formative years
- Experience in a very early engineering role
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
