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JOB TITLE: Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability
The Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability leads a team dedicated to ensuring the reliability, observability, and resilience of production systems. You will manage a team focused on incident management, operational readiness, and reliability engineering, translating high-level strategy into measurable outcomes. Day-to-day responsibilities include evolving incident response programs, improving postmortem quality, and establishing scalable operational readiness standards for new services. You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to embed reliability into standard workflows. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations. Preferred technical skills include experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and observability platforms like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry. You will solve systemic reliability risks by improving detection, reducing manual toil, and implementing service level objectives to protect the business.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?
Median $238500 from 39 postings across 20 companies.
Manage and develop a team focused on incident management, observability, and reliability engineering.
Define the SRE function's charter, roadmap, and measurable outcomes to align with company strategy.
Lead high-severity incident response and evolve the incident management program to improve detection and recovery.
Improve postmortem quality to ensure incident learnings result in durable engineering improvements and systemic solutions.
Enhance production observability by improving the quality and accessibility of metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
Establish scalable operational readiness standards for new services, major launches, and architectural changes.
Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability, service level objectives, and automated safeguards into standard workflows.
What we're looking for
5+ years of reliability engineering management experience and 7+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
Significant hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or an equivalent role operating and improving production systems.
Direct experience managing an SRE, Production Engineering, or equivalent reliability function, including ownership of its strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and production operations.
Experience leading high severity incident response and improving incident management practices at scale.
Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into focused, capacity aware plans and deliver measurable outcomes.
Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high performing engineers and engineering leaders.
Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills to turn complex operational data into clear decisions and drive alignment.
Site Reliability Engineering
Kubernetes
Distributed Systems
Python
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
AWS
Azure
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Infrastructure-as-Code
Linux
Networking
Observability
AI Agents
Capacity Management
Incident Management