Team Leader, SRE

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop an SRE team, owning the full career lifecycle of direct reports, including onboarding, feedback, performance management, progression, and hiring.


• Coach engineers on both technical craft and interpersonal skills, creating clear opportunities for growth and development.


• Foster a healthy, collaborative team environment by understanding team dynamics, addressing conflicts constructively, and maintaining effective retrospective practices.


• Represent the SRE team across engineering and with senior leadership, communicating priorities, challenges, progress, and technical direction.


• Define and prioritize SRE objectives, balancing operational commitments with project delivery and protecting the team's focus.


• Own the support rotation and on-call model, ensuring sustainable operational coverage and effective incident response.


• Provide technical leadership across core infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS, TLS, CI infrastructure, and related platform services.


• Drive the evolution of reliability practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, incident management, observability, and post-incident improvements.


• Partner with Security teams on infrastructure threats, patching, security controls, audits, and compliance requirements.


• Oversee infrastructure-related vendor relationships, including renewals and commercial discussions in collaboration with senior leadership.


• Stay hands-on enough to review technical work, challenge architectural decisions, contribute to complex problems, and provide credible technical direction during incidents.


• Help mature the organization's reliability practices by identifying operational gaps and turning lessons from incidents into lasting engineering improvements.


• Balance short-term operational demands with longer-term platform investments and engineering goals.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading an SRE, infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering team, with direct responsibility for team members' growth, performance, and career progression.


• Strong people-management and coaching skills, with demonstrated ability to develop engineers and provide clear, constructive feedback.


• Experience hiring engineers and assessing both technical capability and broader engineering judgment.


• Strong conflict-resolution and team-dynamics skills, with the ability to build commitment around shared organizational goals.


• Deep hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or a closely related discipline.


• Production experience with Kubernetes, including operational troubleshooting, reliability, scaling, and real-world failure scenarios.


• Significant experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure at meaningful scale.


• Hands-on experience building, enabling, or scaling AI infrastructure.


• Strong understanding of observability principles and practices.


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.


• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable technologies.


• Strong knowledge of Docker and shell scripting.


• Experience owning or operating reliability practices including incident response, on-call, SLOs, error budgets, and post-incident improvement processes.


• Previous experience working in regulated environments and understanding the associated operational and compliance requirements.


• Exceptional prioritization skills, particularly when operational workload competes with project delivery.


• Strong written communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, globally distributed environment.


• Ability to build strong relationships across engineering and become a trusted partner for teams bringing reliability challenges forward.


• Experience with a backend programming language such as Elixir, Java, Clojure, Node.js, Python, or similar is a plus.


• Familiarity with modern observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or Honeycomb is advantageous.


• Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora operations, including performance, connection pools, and query optimization, is beneficial.


• Experience administering Linux systems outside cloud environments is a plus.


• Knowledge of infrastructure security from both defensive and offensive perspectives is advantageous.


• Familiarity with cloud cost management and FinOps is beneficial.


• Experience growing an engineering team from a small starting point, including establishing hiring standards, is a plus.


• Fluent English communication skills are required.


• Ability to work effectively in a fully remote and asynchronous environment.

• Fully remote working environment.


• Flexible, asynchronous working model that allows you to organize your schedule around your life.


• Opportunity to work with a globally distributed engineering organization.


• Significant ownership over both technical direction and people development.


• Approximately 60% individual-contributor technical work and 40% leadership responsibilities.


• Opportunity to shape and mature an evolving SRE and reliability practice.


• Exposure to large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, observability, CI/CD, security, and AI infrastructure.


• Flexible paid time off.


• Flexible working hours.


• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.


• Budget for coworking spaces, learning, wellness, and gym memberships.


• Mental health support services.


• Stock options.


• Home office budget and IT equipment.


• Annual salary range of $75,450–$169,700 USD, with actual compensation determined by factors such as location, experience, relevant skills, training, business needs, and market conditions.


• Compensation and benefits are structured according to location and local market considerations.


• Start date: As soon as possible.


• Location: Romania, with a fully remote working arrangement.

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