[Hiring] Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering @Invoca

Role Description

Invoca is building an agentic development environment, one where software is designed, written, tested, deployed, and operated with AI as a first-class collaborator. Infrastructure is where that gets real or doesn't: agents move fast, and the platform underneath them is what makes that safe. The fastest-growing consumer of infrastructure operations isn't a person clicking through a portal, it's software. That’s what we’re building for.

You help shape where it goes next. Getting there starts with shedding weight:

• Finding where we can leverage partners and managed services.
• Building self-service paths engineers and agents can both use safely.
• Retiring what we shouldn't be running at all.

This is not a caretaking role. You'd inherit a capable team with deep knowledge of our systems, being asked to work differently than it has. You bring outside perspective: you've built and run infrastructure teams elsewhere and you arrive with a specific point of view on what great looks like.

This position reports to the Senior Director, Infrastructure & Security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on in an SRE, DevOps, systems, or infrastructure engineering role.
• 3+ years directly managing teams in one of those disciplines.
• Real depth across the platforms we run on:
• Cloud infrastructure in AWS/GCP
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and policy-as-code for governing it
• GitOps and continuous delivery (ArgoCD and Atlantis)
• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Linux (configured via Chef)
• MySQL
• Strong opinions about infrastructure design and automation, held with an open mind.
• Significant experience as a hiring manager.
• Ability to work alongside highly skilled external specialists.
• A working point of view on AI in infrastructure work.
• Effective in a remote-first, asynchronous culture.

Requirements

• Lead the evolution of Invoca's infrastructure.
• Decide what we run and what we don't.
• Land the move from self-hosted to managed Kubernetes.
• Reduce what the team carries operationally.
• Own the technical direction for the platform your team runs.
• Lead a team of 8 SREs with deep systems knowledge.
• Own and execute the rolling 3-month delivery plan.
• Represent SRE where infrastructure decisions get made.
• Build infrastructure with agents in mind.
• Drive a pipeline, not a bottleneck.
• Extend policy and scanning controls.
• Define clean boundaries and contracts between infrastructure and product teams.
• Win on adoption, not mandate.
• Build for the agentic development era.
• Establish safe, observable, and auditable ways to bring AI into infrastructure.
• Standardize and multiply engineering leverage.
• Connect the infrastructure to business outcomes.

Benefits

• Base Salary: $190,000–$250,000*
• Variable Compensation: Bonus and/or commission eligibility.
• Equity: All employees are invited to share in Invoca's success through our stock option program.
• Day-One Health Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision coverage begins on your first day of employment for U.S.-based teammates.
• Mental Wellbeing – Access to mental wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Wellness Subsidy – Reimbursement for gym memberships, fitness classes, and more.
• Flexible Time Off – Encouraging a healthy work-life balance.
• Paid Holidays – 20 U.S. paid holidays, including a winter break.
• Paid Family Leave – Up to 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for baby bonding, adoption, and caring for family members.*
• Paid Medical Leave – Up to 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for childbirth and medical needs.*
• Enterprise-Grade AI Tools – Access to industry-leading enterprise AI tools.
• Professional Development – Annual reimbursement of up to $1,000 for learning and certifications.
• 401(k) – Company match of up to 4%.*
• Recognition Programs – Company-wide and team recognition programs.
• InVacation (Sabbatical) – Sabbatical after seven years of service.