Site Reliability Engineering Lead

OnePay · Remote · United States (Remote) ·
Fully remoteFull-timeLead8+ years
COMPENSATION
$250k – $280k
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  • Site Reliability Lead
  • Fully remote (US)
  • Python or Go
  • Hands-on leadership
  • Fintech scale

As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager, you will lead a small, senior team from the front, balancing people management with active contribution to the codebase. You will define reliability standards, build automation tooling, and ensure sustainable on-call practices for a high-scale consumer fintech platform trusted by millions.

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a small senior SRE team, focusing on high-leverage reliability work
  • Write production code, build automation tooling, and contribute to the team codebase
  • Define service ownership, alerting strategies, dashboards, and deploy safety protocols
  • Run incident command when needed and drive verified remediation to prevent recurrence
  • Design durable on-call coverage through staffing plans and automation rather than volunteer hours
  • Partner with engineering leaders to raise reliability standards across service teams

What you'll need

  • Strong software engineering foundation with ability to write production-quality code
  • Proficiency in modern languages such as Python or Go
  • Deep experience with reliability for production systems at scale, ideally in fintech
  • Recent people leadership experience managing a small engineering team
  • Hands-on expertise with observability, alerting, safe deploys, and incident command
  • Calm and credible communication skills during live incidents and team interactions

Stack

  • Python
  • Go

How you'll work

  • Fully remote within the United States
  • Flexible time off policy

What you get

  • Competitive base salary and stock options
  • Health benefits available from Day 1
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Opportunities for professional growth

Hiring process

  • AI-assisted initial screen
  • Interview with Talent Partner
  • Technical or Hiring Manager Interview
  • Team Interview
  • Executive Interview
  • Offer