Manage and grow two teams (up to 10 engineers) across SRE and Cloud Platform
Coach senior engineers through technical ambiguity and design tradeoffs
Recruit, hire, onboard and develop engineers while elevating the overall strength of the team
Own the technical direction for infrastructure, reliability, and cloud platform foundations
Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap
Guide project planning by defining milestones, identifying dependencies, and working toward timely and meaningful delivery
Ensure the systems and platforms are operable, debuggable, and resilient by design
Participate in on-call rotations at a sustainable level to stay grounded in real operational issues

Requirements

5+ years in senior technical leadership roles (SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, or Cloud Engineering), including at least 2 years of people management experience, ideally across more than one team
Track record of balancing hands-on technical leadership with people leadership
Strong grasp of SRE fundamentals: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning, and operational excellence
Extensive experience with AWS, GCP and Azure managed services
Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operators/Controllers, containerized workloads, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
Excellent communication: can translate reliability tradeoffs to product/exec stakeholders and write crisp incident/postmortem artifacts
Proven ability to translate operational pain points into engineering deliverables.

Benefits

Competitive salary based on experience
Stock options at an early-stage startup
Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance
A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones
Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard Skills & Tools

SRE fundamentalsSLOsSLIserror budgetsincident managementcapacity planningoperational excellencebackend engineeringdistributed systemsInfrastructure as Code

Soft Skills

technical leadershippeople leadershipcoachingcommunicationproject planningmilestone definitiondependency identificationtimely deliveryproblem-solvingteam development