Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Infrastructure, Security and Platforms)

**This is a full-time role as a Senior SRE with a focus on Kubernetes, infra, security & platforms, located onsite in New York, NY.** 

### About you

1. You’re [hard working, ambitious](https://github.com/calderwoodra/blog/blob/master/images/gh_activity_photo.png?raw=true) and you prefer to “lead from the front”. As a leader on the team, folks will be looking to you as an example of success and you value being a role model and force multiplier for others on the team.
2. You’re looking for a fast growing startup. Here’s [our revenue growth](https://github.com/calderwoodra/blog/blob/master/images/rev_growth_7_30.png?raw=true?raw=true) and [head count growth](https://github.com/calderwoodra/blog/blob/master/images/Screenshot%202025-04-18%20at%207.08.02%E2%80%AFAM.png?raw=true).
3. You’re looking for [teammates](https://github.com/calderwoodra/blog/blob/master/images/bowling_photo.jpeg?raw=true), [not coworkers](https://github.com/calderwoodra/blog/blob/master/images/finra_photo.jpeg?raw=true) - folks you’ll be able to count on to in a pinch and make your team’s goals possible. Here’s a [bonus picture](https://github.com/calderwoodra/blog/blob/master/images/felix_photo.jpeg?raw=true) of our CTO’s son closing his first sale.

### About the role

You will work directly with the founding team to **turn infrastructure and security projects into new and significant revenue**. Incumbents in our space are bloated, on outdated infrastructure and [getting hacked](https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/doj_letter_telemessage.pdf). This presents an exciting opportunity for Hadrius to make a clean and fast break into mega-large firms like JP Morgan with security as a key differentiator.

We pride ourselves on our “hands off culture” by having very few meetings and giving engineers and creators a broad scope of responsibility and autonomy. You’ll be working in-person 5 days/week in our lower-manhattan NYC office, building side-by-side with the rest of the team. Our tech stack is django/python, react/next/typescript, running on Kubernetes (EKS) and Terraform on AWS.

### Responsibilities

**First week:** 

* Day 1: push your first PR to production
* Understand the core problems Hadrius solves, our ICP, our value proposition, the Hadrius platform, pricing structure, and roadmap
* Learn the Hadrius way: how we work and build for high growth
* Get up to speed on our EKS infrastructure, security stack and CI/CD processes.

**First month:** 

* Implement a big feature that directly leads to new revenue for the business
* You’re already standing out on the team and “leading from the front”.
* Unlock GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance

**First 3 months & beyond:** 

* Becoming the defacto owner of all Hadrius infrastructure and deployments.
* PMs, CSMs, Sales and Founders all know "you” are the go-to person for your work
* Training and hiring new team members as you scale your impact across the team

### Qualifications

* 6+ years of related professional experience
* Organized and clear communicator with a penchant for solving problems
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
* Experience with the following technologies:
* Terraform (or related IaC)
* AWS/GCP/Azure
* Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) and deploying production grade applications at scale
* Queuing Systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
* CI/CD (Github Actions, Jenkins or related)
* Database Management like Postgres/MySQL (RBAC, fine-tuning, etc)

### Nice to haves

* Previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment
* Experience working in a mature Django/Python codebase in production
* Postgres Internals
* Kuberenetes based telemetry
* Kuberentes Deployments (Argocd, helm, mutli-region, etc)
* SOC 2 and related frameworks

### Benefits

* 401k (100% match up to 6%)
* Healthcare, dental, vision, etc.