Sonar - Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering. • Operational Mindset: Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset, including experience managing mission-critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, Control Planes). • Cloud Expertise: Advanced knowledge of AWS (or similar providers) and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure (IAM, OUs, Account Vending). • Infrastructure as Code: Experience with the coding lifecycle in an infrastructure context (e.g., Python, CDK, Terraform) and the ability to perform rigorous code reviews for infrastructure components. • Observability & Resiliency: Proven experience defining observability patterns (logging, tracing, metrics) and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies. • Agile & FinOps: Experience with Agile methodologies and a strong understanding of cloud cost optimization (Rightsizing, Spot instances, Reserved Instances). • Additional comments • Additional comments • This role is based in Austin TX. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Austin, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.
Responsibilities
• Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and master the complexities of cloud operations. • Hold yourself and your team accountable to high engineering standards, specifically focusing on system reliability, performance, and security. • Manage the team’s operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and the reduction of manual toil through automation. • Foster a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to conduct blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights. • Collaborate with other value stream squads to ensure the production platform meets the needs of our developers while maintaining strict governance. • Communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the platform engineering roadmap, focusing on resiliency, business continuity, and cost optimization. • Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals. • Lead by example, modeling behaviors of servant leadership and high-stakes decision-making.
Benefits
• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package. • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays • .We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation. • Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas. • Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities. • We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company. • Monthly catered events, and team events • We value diversity, equity, and inclusion
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