Site Reliability Engineering Lead

OnePay

. Lead a small, senior SRE team and provide planning, clarity, and career growth .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $250,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong software engineering skills with a focus on writing production-quality code in Python or Go, alongside expertise in reliability engineering, incident management, and team leadership within high-availability environments.

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Production Code WritingReliability EngineeringIncident Command ExperienceTeam LeadershipObservability and Alerting

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringProduction-Quality CodePythonGoAutomationDesign and Code ReviewsService OwnershipRunbook AutomationHigh-Availability SystemsIncident Remediation

Soft Skills

Calm CommunicationCredible Communication

Tools & Technologies

Observability ToolsIncident ToolingDashboardsAutomation Tools

Industry Keywords

FintechConsumer ServicesHigh-Scale EngineeringService-Health Reviews

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a small, senior SRE team and provide planning, clarity, and career growth
Focus the team on high-leverage reliability work over manual, ticket-driven response
Write production code and build automation, tooling, and golden paths
Contribute to the team codebase and perform design and code reviews
Define service ownership, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and deploy and rollback safety
Run regular service-health reviews for supported systems
Run incident command when needed and drive verified remediation
Build self-service incident tooling and runbook automation
Design sustainable on-call coverage through staffing, handoffs, and automation
Partner with service teams and engineering leaders to raise reliability standards
Report to the Head of Platform and Data Engineering

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong software engineering foundation
Write production-quality code in a modern language such as Python or Go
Comfortable being assessed on coding
Real reliability depth for production systems and services at scale
Experience ideally in a consumer, fintech, or other high-availability environment
Foundation built at a high-bar, high-scale engineering organization with a strong engineering culture
Recent people leadership; managed a small engineering team within roughly the last few years
Hands-on experience with observability, alerting, safe deploys, automation, and incident command
Calm, credible communication with team, partner teams, and during live incidents
Authorized to work lawfully in the United States
Engineering professional experience is requested on the application form, with options including 0–3, 3–7, 7–10, or 10+ years

Benefits

Comp & perks

Stock options
Health benefits from Day 1
401(k) plan with company match
Fully Remote (US)
Flexible time off (FTO)
Opportunities for growth
High-growth, mission-driven, inclusive culture