[Hiring] Engineering Team Lead SRE @SmartRecruiters Inc

Role Description

The SmartRecruiters is looking for an Engineering Team Lead that specializes in SRE. If you are passionate about keeping production up and running in a great manner, we have a spot with your name on it!

In this role you can expect spending 60% of the time on hands-on contribution, 40% for managerial activities.

• Improve, automate and grow SmartRecruiters observability and reliability tooling
• Be an advocate for modern SRE practices
• Partner with Java, Python and Node.js engineers across R&D department to pursue highly available and reliable systems
• Respond to production incidents and client threats, lead remediation, and drive follow‑up improvements
• Document standards, best practices, and policies for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability
• Leading SRE-related initiatives across SmartRecruiters
• Refine and drive DevOps culture for the whole organization
• Provide technical vision and leadership for the team
• Mentor and coach members of the engineering team

We want you to:

• Make a difference
• Have a positive, can-do attitude
• Do the right thing, not the "easy" thing
• Partner with our engineering team

Qualifications

• While not strictly required, most of our Team Leads have 7+ years of professional experience
• Working knowledge of SRE and observability industry standards and best practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on‑call)
• Solid experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, IaC tools and practices, monitoring tools (ELK stack), running and troubleshooting distributed applications
• Knowledge of the Linux operating system, with a focus on troubleshooting performance issues
• Very good scripting skills (Bash, Golang or Python)
• Strong communication skills, with a good understanding of English, both verbal and written
• Ability to coach and influence developers, lead company-wide initiatives, guide high-performing team of SRE engineers
• Commercial software development experience in JVM stack is a plus
• Understanding of networking standards, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN and load balancing is a plus

Additional Information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.