AlphaSense

Senior Director of Engineering, SRE

AlphaSense

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $186,000 - $255,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead reliability and operational excellence across AlphaSense’s platforms and products
  • Scale SRE practices in a “you build it, you run it” engineering organization
  • Lead and grow a follow-the-sun SRE team across multiple time zones
  • Build, mentor, and develop high-performing SRE engineers
  • Own incident management, on-call operations, and post-incident learning
  • Cultivate an awareness and culture of reliability throughout the engineering organization
  • Set direction for observability and operational tooling
  • Enable teams to operate production systems safely and confidently
  • Embed reliability into the whole software delivery lifecycle in collaboration with Product, Platform, Cloud, and Security
  • Reduce systemic risk through toil reduction and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Several years of Senior leadership experience in Site Reliability Engineering capacity
  • Deep knowledge of SRE principles and practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, reliability economics)
  • Experience building self-service systems through platform engineering
  • Strong background in distributed systems and microservices
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native networking fundamentals
  • Experience running systems in multi-cloud environments (AWS and at least one of GCP or Azure)
  • Proven success scaling SRE practices across large engineering organizations
  • Demonstrated experience building, mentoring, and developing high-performing SRE teams
  • Ability to grow and sustain an inclusive, resilient engineering culture
  • Experience operating in a “you build it, you run it” culture
  • Ability to lead through influence and partnership
Benefits
  • You may also be offered equity
  • Generous benefits program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
Site Reliability EngineeringSRE principlesSLIsSLOserror budgetsreliability economicsplatform engineeringdistributed systemsmicroservicesKubernetes
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringteam developmentinclusive cultureresilienceinfluencepartnership