Lead Site Reliability & Security Engineer

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.