[Hiring] Engineering Manager, SRE @Remote

Role Description

Remote's SRE team exists so that our engineers can move quickly and our customers get a product that stays up. The team owns Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI infrastructure, our observability stack and the reliability practices that sits on top of all of it.

We are looking for a Team Leader to run that team. This is a 60% IC, 40% leadership role. You will:

• Own the career development of your reports.
• Steer the team's focus using judgment against the company goals.
• Be the spokesperson for the team across engineering.
• Stay close enough to the technical work to set direction with credibility.
• Know when something is going wrong before it is escalated to you.

Reliability practice at Remote is maturing rather than mature. Our SLO framework is live on its first few teams and needs to reach the rest. There is real work to do on how we balance operational load against project delivery.

Qualifications

• People leadership experience in SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Coaching skills in both craft and soft skills.
• Ability to handle underperformance directly and early, with clarity and empathy.
• Experience in hiring engineers and understanding team dynamics.
• Natural talent for fostering commitment to company goals.

Requirements

• Hands-on background in site reliability, DevOps or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in AWS at meaningful scale.
• Hands-on AI building and scaling AI infrastructure.
• Solid observability practices and principles.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of Docker and shell scripting.
• Experience running a reliability practice: incident response, on-call, SLOs and error budgets.
• Understanding of regulated environments.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible working hours (async).
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships).
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options.
• Home office budget & IT equipment.

Application Process

• Interview with recruiter.
• Interview with hiring manager.
• Scenario interview with a peer team leader.
• Executive interview.
• Bar Raiser interview.
• Offer + prior employment verification check.