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Site Reliability Engineer

VantageScore

San Francisco, CA • 9/16/2026

Job Description

Job Description

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong focus onDevSecOpsto join our growing engineering team. In this role, you willoversee andmaintainthe reliability, security posture, and operational hygiene of our cloud infrastructure, APIs, and software supply chain. You will drive patch management programs, harden ourCloudinfrastructure, andmaintainourcoderepositories to ensure all systemsremaincompliant, secure, and scalable.

This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of operations and security, is passionate about automation, and takes pride in keeping complex environments clean, auditable, and resilient.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and execute end-to-end patch management across AWS compute resources (EC2, ECS, Lambda runtimes, EKS nodes), third-party dependencies, and OS-level packages.
  • Monitor, triage, and remediate vulnerabilitiesidentifiedby security scanning tools (e.g., AWS Inspector,Dependabot,Security Hub,or equivalent),prioritizing byCVSS severity and business impact.
  • Maintain and enforce branch protection rules, secret scanning policies, and dependency update workflows across allcoderepositories.
  • Design and implement automated pipelines for continuous compliance checking, security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA), and infrastructure drift detection.
  • Collaborate with IT& Info-Sec SMEs onAWS IAM roles and policies, VPC configurations, Security Groups, CloudTrail, Config, andGuardDutyto ensure least-privilege access and auditability.
  • Collaborate with development teams to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions,CodePipeline, or equivalent) without impeding developer velocity.
  • Support the reliability and availability ofproductionAPIs including uptime monitoring, incident response, runbook creation, and post-incident reviews.
  • Partner withLegal and Data Governance SMEs on API access procedures and monitoring.
  • Define and track SLOs/SLAs for internal and external APIs; implement alerting and dashboards using observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana).
  • Lead periodic infrastructure and dependency audits; produce clear reports on patch compliance status and open risk items for engineering and security leadership.
  • Maintain thorough documentation of patching schedules, runbooks, access policies, and environment configurations.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 5+years of professional experience inaSiteReliability Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps, orDevSecOpsrole.
  • Demonstratedexpertisemanaging AWS environments including EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, Config, andGuardDuty.
  • Experiencewithvarious cloudenvironments: AWS, Azure, GPC
  • Strong experience with GitHub administration: branch protection, Actions workflows, secret scanning,Dependabot, and code owners.
  • Hands-on experience with patch management and vulnerability remediation at scale, including OS-level patching (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu) and dependency lifecycle management.
  • Proficiencywith infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
  • Experience integrating security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Solid understanding of API reliability patterns: health checks, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and observability.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to cloud environments (SOC 2, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF).
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar for automation and tooling.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technicalriskfor non-technical stakeholders.
  • Build observation (logging, metrics, alerting) systems to make suresystemworkswell, anddevelop response plans.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional).
  • Experience with container security and Kubernetes (EKS) hardening.
  • Familiarity with CSPM tools (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, AWS Security Hub) for continuous cloud posture management.
  • Experience managing API gateways (AWS API Gateway, Kong, or similar) including security policy enforcement.
  • Exposureto secretsmanagement solutions(AWS Secrets Manager,HashiCorpVault).
  • Knowledge of SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) generation and management.
  • Experience with incident response playbooks and tabletop exercises.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and cross-functional engineering teams.

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 annually, plus eligibility for a 15% annual performance bonus. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including skills, experience, education, certifications, and geographic location.

In addition to base salary and bonus eligibility, we offer a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and other employee benefits.