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DirectorFull-timePythonJavaAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGo
Salary Range
$204,000 - $276,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our mission-critical systems and services. This role combines deep SRE expertise with strong engineering leadership to drive organizational transformation toward reliability-first principles.
Key Responsibilities
- →Drive organizational transformation toward SRE principles and own the strategic direction for reliability maturity, cultivating a culture centered on reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- →Develop and oversee automation strategies, tools, and frameworks that improve system reliability, reduce operational toil, and enhance team productivity.
- →Architect and evolve robust observability, monitoring, and alerting systems; champion chaos engineering and resilience testing practices to proactively validate system behavior under failure conditions.
- →Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed SRE practices throughout the development lifecycle and influence architectural decisions for reliability.
- →Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing global SRE organization, fostering technical excellence, career growth, and a strong culture of knowledge sharing.
- →Oversee capacity planning, scalability assessments, and future-state demand forecasting across critical systems.
- →Lead and govern high-severity incident response practices—ensuring rapid triage, thorough root cause analysis, and follow-through on corrective and preventative actions.
Requirements
- ✓BS, MS, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or related experience
- ✓7+ years of experience in the field, including 3+ years leading SRE teams or a team in a similar role
- ✓Strong experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines
- ✓Hands-on experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) and incident management tools (e.g., incident.io, PagerDuty)
- ✓Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Java) with the ability to review code and guide system design decisions
- ✓Proven experience in architecting and managing highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems
- ✓Ability to define a clear reliability vision and inspire teams and stakeholders toward long-term reliability goals
- ✓Demonstrated sound judgment and calm decision-making under pressure, particularly during high-severity incidents
- ✓Strong people leadership skills, with experience coaching and mentoring engineering talent, developing future leaders, and aligning peer engineering managers and leaders on reliability best practices
- ✓Strategic planning skills with a track record of aligning technical direction with organizational objectives
- ✓Excellent communication skills; able to translate complex technical issues into clear, actionable insights for executive and non-technical audiences
- ✓Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, operations, and business functions and leaders
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