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# Lead Site Reliability & Security Engineer

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Databases, Disaster Recovery, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Cloudformation, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Stream Processing
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=700898b67a679fa1

## About the Role

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.

## Description

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., * 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.


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