Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineering

Overview

The Opportunity

• This role is for someone who hasn't left the craft behind, and uses that to manage the space between teams: where product development needs meet infrastructure roadmaps, where compliance and security requirements are anticipated, and where developer pain gets converted into platform investments.
• You know what matters before anyone tells you.
• You represent your team's infrastructure needs across the organization and Engineering Leadership trusts you to have it covered.
• Own the SRE roadmap end-to-end: set priorities independently, drive execution, and make the team's impact visible across the org
• Be the infrastructure voice for your business unit — translate upstream roadmaps into product-specific plans and advocate your team's needs back upstream
• Drive compliance, security, and infrastructure topics for your business unit — identify risks early, own the resolution before they escalate
• Shape developer productivity: engage regularly with product EMs to surface pain points and lead the initiatives that remove them
• Contribute technical credibility to architectural discussions — bring your reliability and operational experience, and carry decisions to completion
• Own your business unit's workstream in a company-wide infrastructure migration. This is hands-on technical leadership, not just stakeholder management
• Lead a 4–6-person generalist SRE team through 1:1s, performance cycles, and meaningful career development

Skills You Should Hodl

• Hands-on SRE or infrastructure engineering background — you contribute directly when the situation calls for it
• Fluent with cloud-native infrastructure — Kubernetes, observability stacks, CI/CD pipelines
• Prior experience managing or leading a small-to-mid-size engineering team, including full performance cycles
• Built and owned an SRE or infrastructure roadmap — you set priorities without waiting to be told
• Represents technical needs in cross-functional and leadership conversations, including at director level
• *Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.*
• *Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.*
• *We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.*
• Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives.
• We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job.
• We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!
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