Principal Site Reliability Engineering Lead US

StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency. 

At StarCompliance, we operate a distributed, multi-tenant SaaS platform supporting critical compliance needs for global clients. The ability to safely and repeatedly promote change into production—across our entire platform estate—is central to our success.

We are seeking a Senior / Lead Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership and custodianship of our production promotion, observability, and reliability practices. This associate director–level role reports into the Head of Platform Engineering and is suited to an experienced SRE leader who combines strong operational judgement with solid software engineering experience and a deeply hands-on approach. 

The role blends strategic responsibility with hands-on execution. You will work closely with Technical Leads and QA to shape how systems are promoted through environments, ensuring that quality, performance, and operational readiness are built into the promotion process. You will remain actively involved in day-to-day engineering, on-call and rota support, and continuous improvement of production systems, while contributing to the wider platform strategy. 

How you work matters. We value leaders who take ownership of outcomes, communicate clearly under pressure, and raise the operational maturity of the organisation through action as well as direction. 

All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information.  To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.  

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