# Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Infrastructure, Security and Platforms)

**Company:** [Hadrius](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/hadrius)
**Location:** New York, NY, US
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 200K–265K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Listed:** 2026-09-08

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/hadrius/site-reliability-engineering-lead-infrastructure-security-and-platforms-81664)

## Job description

**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 Incumbents in our space are bloated, on outdated infrastructure and [getting hacked](https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/doj_letter_telemessage.pdf).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.

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### Interview Process

1.  **20 minute phone screen:** Details on the role, questions to assess initial fit
2.  **60 minute deep-dive:** We’ll cover systems you’ve built and managed
3.  **On-site:**
    1.  **45 minute 2:1 technical deep dives with engineering leads**
    2.  **2x mutual culture fit chats with engineers**
4.  **Reference call**
5.  **Offer**

End to end we aim for a decision in 5-8 business days.

## Other open roles at Hadrius

- [Strategic Finance and Operations Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/hadrius/strategic-finance-and-operations-manager-105452) — New York, NY, US
- [AI Engineering Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/hadrius/ai-engineering-lead-70099) — New York, NY, US
- [Senior Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/hadrius/senior-software-engineer-79636) — New York, NY, US
- [Product Marketing Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/hadrius/product-marketing-lead-92316) — New York, NY, US
- [Account Executive](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/hadrius/account-executive-79789) — New York, NY, US

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