Lead Site Reliability & Security Engineer

Role Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

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 .
• 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.
• Salary: $185,000 – $235,000 USD annually, commensurate with experience.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
• This role is based in New York, NY . On-site or hybrid presence is expected. This is not a fully remote position.