Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of SREs, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance management.
• Partner with Software Development teams to design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable services.
• Drive the evolution of monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks to ensure rapid detection and resolution of production issues.
• Implement software solutions and automation to eliminate manual tasks and improve the efficiency of systems operations. Manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to balance innovation with system stability.
• Participate in on-call rotations as a manager-escalation point and lead incident command during critical outages. Advocate a culture of engineering excellence, technical curiosity, and continuous improvement within the Sydney office.
• - Lead and grow a team of SREs, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance management. - Partner with Software Development teams to design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable services. - Drive the evolution of monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks to ensure rapid detection and resolution of production issues. - Implement software solutions and automation to eliminate manual tasks and improve the efficiency of systems operations. Manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to balance innovation with system stability. - Participate in on-call rotations as a manager-escalation point and lead incident command during critical outages. Advocate a culture of engineering excellence, technical curiosity, and continuous improvement within the Sydney office.

Minimum qualifications:

Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. - 3 years of experience managing people or teams. - 3 years of experience leading projects. - 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Preferred qualifications: - Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a technical field. - Experience managing high-performing teams responsible for large-scale, 24/7 production systems. - Deep understanding of SRE principles, including error budgets, toil reduction, and capacity planning. - Proven track record of driving cross-functional projects and influencing architectural decisions. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.