Team Leader, SRE

About the role

Remote’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team builds and operates the core infrastructure that powers the company’s global HR platform. As a Team Leader you will split your time between hands‑on technical work (≈60 %) and people leadership (≈40 %). You will guide the team’s focus, own career development of engineers and act as the spokesperson for SRE across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Define and prioritize SRE goals, manage on‑call rotation and drive reliability practices such as SLOs, error budgets and incident response.
• Oversee the core platform – Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS/TLS, CI/CD pipelines and the observability stack.
• Lead the career lifecycle of four direct reports: hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, coaching and progression.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance and vendor partners to ensure infrastructure hardening and audit readiness.
• Represent the SRE team to senior engineering leadership and influence cross‑team technical decisions.

Required profile

• Proven people‑leadership experience managing SRE, infrastructure or platform teams, including handling under‑performance and fostering growth.
• Deep hands‑on background in site reliability, DevOps or cloud engineering, capable of reviewing designs and leading incident response.
• Strong judgment in balancing operational load with project delivery while protecting team focus.
• Excellent written communication skills for a fully asynchronous, distributed environment.

Required skills

• Kubernetes in production.
• AWS at meaningful scale.
• PostgreSQL (or Aurora) performance tuning.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• CI/CD systems: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Docker and shell scripting.
• Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Honeycomb.
• Experience building or scaling AI infrastructure.

What we offer

• Fully remote work with flexible, async schedule.
• Competitive salary range $75,450 – $169,700 USD per year.
• Equity stock options.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Budget for co‑working spaces, learning, wellness and gym memberships.
• Mental‑health support services.
• Home‑office budget and IT equipment.