Director, Site Reliability Engineering

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. Lead the SRE function for an assigned product, platform, pillar, or business domain .

Posted 10/8/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $173,000 - $276,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLOs, SLIs, and incident management, while leading high-performing engineering teams and driving reliability improvements in business-critical systems. Capable of translating business priorities into reliability investments and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)SLOs/SLIs ManagementIncident ManagementCloud PlatformsDistributed Systems

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentAutomation EngineeringPerformance AnalysisCapacity PlanningReliability MetricsObservabilityError BudgetsProduction ReadinessTechnical LeadershipEngineering Solutions

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipStakeholder CommunicationInclusive Team BuildingAccountabilityTraining and Development

Tools & Technologies

Infrastructure AutomationMonitoring ToolsTelemetry SystemsDashboardsAlerting Systems

Industry Keywords

Financial ServicesPaymentsHigh-Availability EnvironmentRegulatory ComplianceBusiness-Critical Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the SRE function for an assigned product, platform, pillar, or business domain
Own reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of business-critical production services
Develop engineering talent and establish domain reliability strategy and priorities
Partner with Product, Software Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Risk teams
Establish and measure SLIs and SLOs aligned with customer, product, and business outcomes
Identify and prioritize reliability risk using SLO performance, error budgets, failure data, and production evidence
Champion reusable software, tooling, and automation to improve reliability, scalability, and operability
Develop code, contribute to automation and engineering solutions, and work directly with engineers when appropriate
Establish expectations for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and telemetry
Drive actionable alerting and observability for diagnosis, performance analysis, capacity planning, and continuous improvement
Provide leadership for incident response, service restoration, and stakeholder communication
Improve incident response through automation, runbooks, training, exercises, and recurring-pattern analysis
Promote blameless post-incident reviews and systemic learning
Ensure critical services meet production-readiness, resilience, recovery, capacity, and scalability expectations
Reduce repetitive, manual, and low-value operational work through engineering, automation, and simplification
Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, and engineering teams to meet control, resilience, and regulatory obligations
Build, develop, and retain high-performing SRE teams with clear accountability, career development, and succession
Translate business and product priorities into reliability investments and a multi-quarter roadmap
Set priorities and make evidence-based tradeoffs across reliability, delivery, operational risk, capacity, and business needs
Develop managers and technical leaders
Make reliability risk, SLO performance, operational load, and improvement progress visible through metrics and operating reviews
Provide accountable leadership during significant incidents and ensure corrective actions are completed

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically 12+ years of relevant software engineering, site reliability engineering, production engineering, platform engineering, or closely related experience, including significant technical leadership
5+ years of people leadership experience, with demonstrated success leading engineering teams and developing managers and/or senior technical leaders
Experience operating highly available, business-critical distributed systems and leading reliability improvement across a major product, platform, pillar, or business domain
Strong understanding of SRE practices, including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, incident management, automation, capacity, resilience, and production readiness
Demonstrated hands-on technical capability and sufficient depth to develop code, contribute to automation and engineering solutions, and work directly with engineers when appropriate
Ability to communicate technical risk, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly to engineering, product, and senior business stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to build inclusive, accountable, and high-performing engineering teams
Candidates must independently possess eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire
Position is ineligible for employment visa sponsorship
Preferred: experience in payments, financial services, or another highly regulated, high-availability environment
Preferred: experience leading SRE or production engineering across multiple teams or a complex product or platform ecosystem
Preferred: experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, modern observability, infrastructure automation, and software delivery at scale
Preferred: experience establishing reliability metrics, governance, and operating reviews across teams within a defined domain

Benefits

Comp & perks

Discretionary incentive plan
Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health and dependent care expenses
401(k) retirement plan with 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees
Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
11 paid company holidays
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work