This role pays less than
58%
of similar roles. Most pay
$150,000–$213,125
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$175k
versus about
$182k
for comparable roles.
Based on 238 similar postings.
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About The Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations.
The Federal Reserve currently has
23 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,350–$174,450
across 16 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will join the SRE/Production Operations team to manage the production environment for the FedNow program. You will apply both software and system engineering practices to operate, improve, and maintain large-scale distributed systems while ensuring seamless automation across the platform. Your daily responsibilities include architecting monitoring tools for capacity planning, designing CI/CD and IaC pipelines, and managing resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity testing. The role requires expertise in AWS services like EKS, RDS, and S3, alongside Hashicorp Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible. You will utilize Python, Java, or Go to build automation tools within Linux environments using Docker and containers. Key technical competencies include experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace for observability, as well as fault injection tooling to ensure high availability in a real-time gross settlement payment system.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.
Site Reliability Engineering
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Java
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Dynatrace
Bash
PowerShell
FedRAMP
Distributed Systems
Load Balancing
DNS