Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Required Technology And Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, automation, and production operations.
• Deep AWS expertise including ECS, EC2, Auto Scaling, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and multi-account cloud environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar programmatic frameworks.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Bitbucket Pipelines, or equivalent technologies.
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, incident response, logging, alerting, and SLO-driven engineering practices.
• Cloud security experience including IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and security best practices.
• Experience supporting highly available, real-time production platforms at scale.
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a player-coach, leading and mentoring a small team of highly skilled DevOps and SRE engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and operational execution.
• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the company's AWS-based platform.
• Drive infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture, deployment automation, and platform modernization efforts.
• Lead incident response, operational excellence initiatives, and continuous improvement of production systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and executive leadership teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help establish best practices across reliability engineering and platform operations.

Compensation

• $200,000-$250,000 Base Salary
• Equity Package
• Comprehensive Benefits

Additional Information

This is a rare opportunity to join a fully remote, remote-first organization in a highly visible leadership role. The ideal candidate enjoys balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution and thrives in a player-coach environment where they can directly influence the reliability and future direction of a mission-critical cloud platform.