Lead Engineer – Site Reliability

Empower

Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Empower, driving reliability initiatives across financial services platform. Combine technical expertise with leadership in solving complex operational challenges.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGoKubernetesPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

combine deep technical expertise with team leadership to drive reliability
lead other SREs in solving complex operational challenges
establish technical standards and serve as an advisor to engineering leadership
lead cross-functional reliability initiatives
architect enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions
establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
lead major incident response as incident commander
drive strategic improvements to observability
evaluate and introduce new technologies

Requirements

What you’ll need

6-10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (or equivalent)
Proven ability to lead technical teams
Expert-level knowledge of AWS
Deep Kubernetes expertise
Mastery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Strong software engineering background with production experience in Python and/or Go
Extensive experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Splunk)
Deep understanding of CI/CD principles
Proven track record leading major incidents

Benefits

Comp & perks

flexible work environment
fluid career paths
celebrating internal mobility
purpose and well-being recognition
work-life balance initiatives

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Hard Skills & Tools

Site Reliability EngineeringAWSKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPythonGoobservability platformsDatadogSplunk

Soft Skills

team leadershipproblem solvingtechnical standards establishmentcross-functional collaborationincident response leadershipstrategic improvement