Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Alloy

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: NY
Salary: $179,000–$226,000 / yr
Posted: 83 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role $202k

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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$209,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $202k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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About Alloy

Alloy is an identity decisioning platform that provides fraud prevention, compliance, and credit underwriting solutions for banks, credit unions, and fintechs to automate identity verification decisions. Industry: Financial Technology & Identity Verification

Alloy currently has 8 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $153,500–$192,000 across 8 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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Join Alloy’s Infrastructure Team as an experienced engineer with 10+ years in infrastructure or SRE roles, where you will design and build automated systems for managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters and databases. Your day-to-day involves reducing operational toil by automating manual processes, building internal tooling for safe self-service changes, and enhancing the reliability of complex distributed systems. You’ll work closely with other engineers to contribute to architecture decisions, write production-quality code, and participate in on-call rotations focused on preventing incidents. Proficiency in software engineering, Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, observability tools such as Datadog, and a programming language like Python or Go is essential. Experience with AWS and Kubernetes at scale is highly desirable for this role that emphasizes automation, system scalability, and reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes Terraform Python Go Docker CI/CD AWS Datadog CloudWatch ELK EFK JavaScript

What you'll do

Design and build systems to automate infrastructure management at scale.
Reduce operational toil by automating manual processes into reliable workflows.
Build internal tooling for safe self-service changes for other engineers.
Improve reliability and resilience of Kubernetes, databases, and services.
Implement and evolve deployment systems for applications in Kubernetes.

What we're looking for

10+ years experience in infrastructure, SRE, or software engineering roles.
Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in at least one programming language.
Experience managing production infrastructure at scale using cloud and containerized systems.
Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and running/troubleshooting distributed systems.
Proficiency with observability tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK/EFK for monitoring and debugging.
Participation in on-call rotations and a focus on preventing incidents through system improvements.

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