Flywire

Site Reliability Engineering Manager II

Flywire

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: IllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Help drive reliability, automation and performance within our cloud-based infrastructure
  • Coordinate and support daily activities for SREs on the team and partner with their managers to determine approach for managing daily tasks
  • Track success on the team based on established goals and objectives
  • Work on issues of limited scope with the ability to find and execute solutions to routine problems
  • Become embedded within an Engineering team helping them navigate production excellence and advocate for best practices
  • Mentor team members and drive initiatives
  • Drive a design for a feature while understanding system-wide and architectural concerns
  • Understand the basic day-to-day tasks traits of a production environment and participate in on-call support
  • Engage and collaborate with other disciplines within the design, deployment, operation and optimization of services
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack as well as practice incident response and blameless postmortems
  • Identifies opportunities both in processes and tools to improve the overall productivity of the team
  • Identify great talent and excite them to join our team
  • Provide estimations, track progress and manage risk as well as team members' time
  • Participate in an on-call shift along with other disciplines to respond to incidents
  • Become involved in tech communities and add contributions to enhance them
  • Lean into our business domain and needs as well as our company vision, mission and strategy to deliver on our short and long term goals

Requirements

  • 5 years of experience within the SRE space
  • 2-5 years of leading or managing and developing SRE teams
  • Comfortable with the idea of being or becoming a generalizing specialist as we are aiming to build a multidisciplinary and balanced team based on 't-shaped' individuals.
  • Experience with at least one programming language is required as software engineering is an important part of our work and we actively use and support many different platforms and languages
  • Proficient with testing techniques such TDD or BDD will be highly valued
  • Familiarity with the container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems and CI/CD tools is key for being successful at this role
  • Comfortable taking ownership of complex systems challenges and help uncover opportunities for improvement
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, and most importantly, empathy as we enable, empower and encourage our fellow colleagues
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
  • Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
  • Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
  • Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
  • Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in your community and Digital Disconnect Days!
  • Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard Skills & Tools
site reliability engineeringprogramming languagestesting techniquesTDDBDDcloud infrastructureCI/CD toolscontainer ecosystemincident responsedebugging
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationempathymentoringleadershipproblem-solvinginitiativetime managementrisk managementteam building