Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems.

We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team and drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems.

This role combines deep technical expertise in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices to ensure our services meet the highest standards of availability and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

System Reliability & Performance

•    Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient systems across cloud infrastructure

•    Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure optimal system performance

•    Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures

•    Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans

Infrastructure & Automation

•    Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

•    Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows

•    Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management

Engineering & Development

•    Build and maintain internal tools and services to improve operational efficiency

•    Collaborate with development teams to implement reliability best practices

•    Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance on system design

•    Develop monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks

Security & Compliance

•    Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST)

•    Implement and maintain security controls across infrastructure and applications

•    Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements

•    Conduct security assessments and vulnerability management

Leadership & Collaboration

•    Mentor junior SRE team members and promote SRE culture across the organization

•    Partner with software engineering teams to improve system reliability

•    Drive technical initiatives and contribute to architectural decisions

•    Document processes, runbooks, and technical specifications
 

Software Engineering:


* Strong proficiency in Java, Python, and Node.js


* Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems


* Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns


* Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable, and testable code

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS):


* Extensive experience with AWS services including:
+ Compute:...