Engineering Manager – Site Reliability Engineering

. Lead SRE across observability, incident management, load testing, performance engineering, cloud cost and capacity, and rollout infrastructure .

Posted 9/26/2026full-timeFoster City • California • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $250,000 - $325,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead SRE across observability, incident management, load testing, performance engineering, cloud cost and capacity, and rollout infrastructure
Lead and grow an existing team building and operating production platforms across application and infrastructure boundaries
Build and operate metrics, logs, traces, and alerting capabilities
Help teams establish meaningful SLOs and use production telemetry to diagnose problems and verify improvements
Own incident tooling and practices, coordinate cross-team response, and turn incident reviews into engineering improvements
Build and maintain load and failure-testing capabilities
Validate critical paths under expected demand, quantify headroom, and test recovery and production readiness with service owners
Lead deep engagements on SLOs and end-to-end performance
Use profiling, telemetry, and load tests to identify bottlenecks and deliver improvements with service owners
Review designs and production changes, debug difficult failure modes, and use AI coding tools to prototype and automate
Coach engineers, develop technical leaders, manage performance, and hire against agreed needs
Establish deliberate distributed collaboration, mentoring, and backup coverage
Track rollout safety, recovery time, repeat incidents, critical-path latency/throughput, test coverage, and cost/capacity improvements
Agree success measures and continuing ownership with partner teams

What you’ll need

Demonstrated engineering management: led and developed engineers, made prioritization and performance decisions, hired thoughtfully, and delivered through a team
Experience building and operating distributed systems or reliability platforms
Ability to reason across deployment behavior, Kubernetes, telemetry, service dependencies, and recovery mechanisms
Experience leading consequential migrations or incidents
Experience using measurement to diagnose reliability or performance problems and validate fixes under realistic conditions
Ability to build capabilities adopted by other teams
Ability to lead hands-on engagements without absorbing every service's operations
Ability to make tradeoffs among reliability, performance, engineering effort, and cost
Experience with GitOps or progressive-delivery platforms such as Harness, ArgoCD, or Kargo (nice to have)
Experience with observability, profiling, load-testing, and failure-testing systems, including OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling (nice to have)
Experience with cloud cost attribution, capacity planning, and provider coordination, particularly on GCP (nice to have)
Experience growing distributed teams and using AI tools while preserving production safeguards (nice to have)
Ability to work from the Foster City, CA headquarters 3 days per week, or willingness to relocate
Legal authorization to work in the United States
Must be at least 18 years of age

Comp & perks