Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Job summary

Lead a small Site Reliability Engineering team while remaining hands-on in building and operating resilient infrastructure for a connected-vehicle data platform. The role covers vehicle telemetry and data ingestion, cloud-native systems, observability, incident response, and reliability standards, using technologies including Kubernetes, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. The position is approximately 80% engineering and 20% people leadership.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering, including team leadership.
• Experience building and maintaining high-scale, cloud-native systems; AWS, GCP, or Azure experience preferred.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment strategies.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java and strong code review and readability practices.
• Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure projects and balancing reliability, performance, and cost.
• Ability to respond effectively to incidents and competing stakeholder priorities.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical risks into business impact.
• Experience coaching teams, navigating conflict, and fostering inclusive accountability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, observable infrastructure for vehicle telemetry, data ingestion, and platform operations.
• Contribute production code, review designs and pull requests, and unblock critical reliability work.
• Improve configuration management, infrastructure, and testing practices to strengthen resilience.
• Partner with SRE, development, and product teams to improve reliability, deployment safety, and incident response.
• Define observability strategy, automated alerting, and actionable SLO dashboards.
• Improve on-call practices, lead blameless postmortems, and guide root cause analysis.
• Set reliability standards for new products and customer-facing applications, communicating technical trade-offs.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 8 engineers; support hiring and onboarding.

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Relocation