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SecurityScorecard

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SecurityScorecard, Austin, Texas, us, 78716

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Overview

This range is provided by SecurityScorecard. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range $100,000.00/yr - $205,000.00/yr About SecurityScorecard: SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a Best Workplace, Crain’s NY as a Best Places to Work in NYC, and by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. SecurityScorecard is funded by investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV and Riverwood Capital. Role Overview

As a

Staff Site Reliability Engineer , you will be a key technical leader driving the design, implementation, and optimization of our Kubernetes-based infrastructure and CI/CD systems. You’ll work hands-on with engineering teams to accelerate delivery, ensure production reliability, and embed best practices for automation, observability, and resilience. This role requires strong technical depth and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams to guide large-scale infrastructure and platform initiatives. Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale

Kubernetes infrastructure

to support secure, multi-tenant, high-availability applications. Lead efforts to

optimize and maintain CI/CD pipelines , improving reliability, speed, and rollback safety for production deployments. Collaborate with developers to implement

progressive delivery strategies , including blue/green and canary deployments. Improve Infrastructure as Code practices with tools like

Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD , and help define reusable patterns for the broader org. Operate and optimize data streaming and analytics infrastructure, including

Kafka, Flink, and ClickHouse , to ensure reliable, scalable pipelines for real-time and batch workloads. Build and enforce

automated testing strategies

(unit, integration, performance) within the CI/CD lifecycle. Partner with development and platform teams to

improve system observability , define SLOs, and establish meaningful alerts and dashboards. Actively contribute to

incident response

efforts and postmortems, with a focus on root cause analysis and sustainable remediation. Mentor engineers across teams, sharing deep knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. Qualifications

6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles, including

significant experience in production Kubernetes environments . Proven success building and maintaining

CI/CD pipelines

using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Spinnaker. Strong hands-on experience with

Kubernetes internals

(networking, scaling, RBAC, etc.) and cloud-managed services like EKS, GKE, or AKS. Expertise with

Infrastructure as Code

(Terraform, Helm, Pulumi) and GitOps workflows. Solid experience with test automation tools and integrating testing into the CI/CD lifecycle. Proficient in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, or Go. Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry). Practical experience with

Kafka

(event streaming),

Flink

(real-time stream processing), and

ClickHouse

(high-performance analytics database) in production environments. Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with product engineering, security, and platform teams. Nice-to-Have

Experience operating

multi-region or multi-cluster Kubernetes

environments. Exposure to

chaos engineering , resilience testing, or traffic shaping strategies. Familiarity with security scanning, compliance automation, or infrastructure policy-as-code. Contributions to open-source Kubernetes tools or CI/CD platforms. Familiarity with JVM and Node.js-based services. Compensation note:

Specific to each country, we offer a competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursements, and more. The estimated total compensation range for this position is $100,000 - $205,000 (base plus bonus). Actual compensation is based on various factors including affordability, skills, qualifications, and experience, and may vary from the range. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and equity, among other benefits. Equal Employment Opportunity : SecurityScorecard is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. Hiring decisions are based on merit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law, and provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact talentacquisitionoperations@securityscorecard.io. Any information you submit to SecurityScorecard as part of your application will be processed in accordance with the Company’s privacy policy and applicable law. SecurityScorecard does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies and does not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

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