
Site Reliability Engineering Manager II
Flywire
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • United 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