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Lead Site Reliability & Security Engineer
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ABOUT THE ROLE
A well-funded, Series A/B SportsTech company operating a commission-free, peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange is looking for a Lead Site Reliability & Security Engineer to join their hands-on, cross-functional engineering team in New York. This is a high-impact hybrid role blending reliability engineering and security operations for a regulated, exchange-grade trading platform. You'll own disaster recovery, observability, and security-by-design initiatives — keeping a high-throughput platform up, resilient, and compliant under load.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and own disaster recovery, reliability, and observability frameworks for a regulated trading platform.
- Lead security-minded infrastructure initiatives across engineering teams, embedding security at every layer.
- Automate recovery and reliability processes through infrastructure-as-code.
- Partner with product and compliance stakeholders to ensure exchange-grade uptime and auditability.
- Act as the connective tissue between reliability engineering and security operations.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Dealbreakers (must-haves):
- 5+ years of combined Site Reliability Engineering and security engineering experience in cloud environments.
- Proven track record of disaster recovery and business continuity planning/implementation for regulated trading platforms.
Required skills & experience:
- Leadership and cross-functional collaboration; ability to mentor teammates and communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience designing and implementing observability strategies (metrics, logs, tracing) to support reliability at scale.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Strong incident response capabilities, including root-cause analysis and post-incident reporting.
- Deep knowledge of security best practices across all infrastructure layers with a security-by-design mindset.
- Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming systems.
- Hands-on experience with both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
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.
Salary insight
The midpoint of this range ($210k) is about 19% above the median disclosed salary for New York roles listed on ForgeApply ($176k across 4,586 jobs).
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