Senior SRE, Software Engineering NYC, Full\-time, Hybrid.
$205K \- $225K \+ Equity
About the Role
As a Senior SRE you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of January's production and internal systems as we scale from thousands to millions of borrowers. You'll establish SRE practices from the ground up \- architecting resilient infrastructure, implementing proactive monitoring solutions, and building sustainable on\-call processes that evolve with our rapid growth. Your work will directly tackle our current scaling challenges including database optimization, async workflow infrastructure, and data pipeline reliability while ensuring our engineering team can ship with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
\- Lead incident response and establish sustainable on\-call practices, including comprehensive runbooks, blameless postmortems, and systematic improvements that reduce MTTR
\- Develop and maintain self\-service observability solutions using modern monitoring tools that provide actionable insights for troubleshooting and performance optimization
\- Create and maintain infrastructure as code (using Terraform, CloudFormation) that allows for consistent, scalable, and secure cloud environments on AWS
\- Partner closely with feature teams to architect resilient infrastructure for critical components (databases, networking, async workflows, data pipelines) that scale seamlessly
\- Work closely with DevX to design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary) that enable teams to ship confidently and rapidly
\- Advocate for best practices early in feature design, ensuring we design with reliability in mind and future\-proof our services.
Requirements
\- Expertise leading incident response for high\-availability production systems, thorough root cause analysis, and fostering blameless postmortem culture
\- Experience designing highly available deployment architectures across multiple targets (e.g. EC2, Fargate), with expertise in auto\-scaling, health checks, and graceful degradation strategies
\- Track record of implementing effective monitoring \& observability solutions (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK), and evangelizing best practices
\- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure\-as\-code practices using tools like Terraform
\- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation to enable reliable, efficient deployments
\- 5\+ years SRE/DevOps OR 7\+ years SWE with strong infrastructure focus.
Bonus Skills
\- Excellent communication skills with experience documenting processes and collaborating across engineering teams
Ideal Background
\- Background from top‑pedigree schools (e.g., Harvard, Berkeley, NYU).
\- Prior experience at high‑caliber engineering companies (e.g., Asana‑type orgs, likened to “Palantir‑model” engineering cultures).
\- Clear “spike” signals in the resume: entrepreneurial ventures (even failed), founding side projects, starting clubs, or other forms of hustle and ambition.
\- Rapid rise through ranks at previous companies and evidence of high‑ceiling potential.
Skills
Required
PythonRStatistical analysisData visualization
Nice to Have
Ability to present data compellinglyStrategic thinkingIndependent work capability
Job Type: Full\-time
Pay: $205,000\.00 \- $225,000\.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY