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About the role As april's SRE / DevOps Lead, you'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure that powers our platform — a system trusted by leading wealth managers, banks, and consumer fintechs to handle some of the most sensitive financial data their users have. You'll lead a team of 2 SREs and partner closely with product engineering, security, and our compliance partners to make sure what we build runs the way our customers (and the IRS) expect. This is a hands-on lead role. You'll set the technical direction for our cloud platform, deployment pipelines, observability, and on-call practices — and you'll write the code, configs, and runbooks that get us there. You'll also own april's IT function (identity, endpoints, SaaS) at a tighter scope, keeping the company secure and productive as we grow. What you'll do - Lead and grow a team of 2 SREs, setting direction across SRE, DevOps, and IT - Own the architecture, performance, and reliability of april's GCP-based platform — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and scale - Define and uphold our SLOs, infra budgets, on-call priorities, and incident response practice - Build and operate our observability stack so engineers can find and fix problems before customers feel them - Partner with engineering and security on the controls, evidence, and audits that keep us SOC 2, SOC1 and STIG compliant and IRS-authorized - Plan and execute capacity, load testing, and game days for tax season — the highest-stakes window of our year - Own corporate IT: identity (Okta), Google Workspace, endpoint management (Jamf / Kandji), and the SaaS stack used across the company - Set the standard for how we ship: fast, safe, observable, and reversible What you'll bring - 7+ years of SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering experience, including 1y+ leading or managing engineers - Deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on GCP — Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform at real scale, not just consumed off-the-shelf - Strong programming or scripting fundamentals (Go, Python, or similar) and a track record of automating processes - Experience operating in a SOC 2 environment and supporting external audits; comfort working alongside compliance and security partners - Experience with regulated workloads (IRS, financial services, healthcare, or similar) — or a clear, demonstrated desire to go deep on what that means - Strong observability instincts: you've built dashboards, alerts, and SLOs in Datadog (or equivalent) that engineers actually rely on - Calm, clear leadership during incidents — and a coaching mindset for your team between them - Working knowledge of identity and endpoint tooling (Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf or Kandji) — enough to set direction for the IT side of the role - Clear written and spoken English; comfortable collaborating with our NYC team across time zones Bonus points - IRS e-file ecosystem, FTI handling, or fintech-grade data residency experience. - Experience preparing infrastructure for a certification milestone (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC1, STIG). - FinOps / cloud cost management experience. - Database operations at scale (Postgres, Spanner, or similar). - Experience standing up or scaling an IT function at a high-growth startup. - 3+ years of experience as a software engineer - Advantage! How we work - Mission first. Every decision ties back to building a smarter, simpler tax experience. - Team over ego. We value contribution over credit and bring others along. - Win with determination. We pursue outcomes others assume are impossible — and we iterate until we get there. About april april is the only embedded, year-round tax platform built to power smarter financial decisions. From filing to planning to onboarding, april’s white-labeled tools bring real-time tax intelligence into the platforms people already use, helping users understand the impact of every pa