Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Lightspeed; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Remote work policies

Equity options

Career growth

Job summary

Lightspeed is seeking a Manager, Site Reliability Engineering to lead two teams of 4-6 platform engineers, spanning SRE and Developer Experience. The role guides the full software delivery cycle for our global cloud-based POS SaaS platform, ensuring reliability, scalability and performance.

Based in Canada, you will drive strategic planning, infrastructure, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product and other departments. On-call rotation may be required.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of cross-functional cloud platform teams.
• Track record delivering reliable, scalable production systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead two teams (4–6 engineers each) across SRE and Developer Experience.
• Drive people-management activities: performance, goals, and development plans.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance work environment.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

SRE management

DevEx / developer experience

Automation

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by

Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We’re looking for a Manager, Site Reliability Engineering to lead 2 teams of 4-6 platform engineers with a wide scope spanning across Site Reliability and Developer Experience. The platform covers the full cycle of software delivery, from CI/CD pipelines to high-availability, scalable production environments.

This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and optimal performance of our global cloud-based POS SaaS platform, which is critical to our customers' success. This position is also responsible for driving innovative engineering solutions to improve the developer experience and for managing cross-department stakeholders.

Please note this role is based in Canada.

What you’ll be doing:

People Leadership

• Coach, mentor, guide, and motivate a senior team of cross-functional cloud platform engineers

• Drive all cyclical people management activities, including performance management, goal setting, and individual development plans

• Foster a positive work environment that encourages teamwork, creativity, innovation and high performance

Strategic Planning and Roadmap Development

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the SRE team, aligning them with the company's objectives and goals.

• Understand business units roadmaps and interaction across the business.

• Help define team’s vision, rationalize and prioritize projects with the emphasis on improving developer experience, production stability and scalability.

• Build and project manage the team’s roadmap, establish the processes to execute on it, and keep the team on track.

Infrastructure and Automation

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions for our global cloud-based POS SaaS platform, leveraging modern cloud technologies and principles.

• Drive automation efforts to streamline deployment, monitoring, and operational processes, enhancing the efficiency of our systems.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with engineering, product, and SRE teams from other departments to facilitate effective collaboration and alignment on platform goals and initiatives

• Drive cross-org projects effectively

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates, gather requirements, and address concerns, ensuring transparency and fostering trust.

Please note that you may be required to take part in our On-Call rotation roster.

What you need to bring:

• Proven experience working autonomously on projects across multiple streams of work.

• A track record of successful project delivery through high-performing teams.

• Extensive hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure providers such as AWS and GCP.

• Proven expertise in orchestrating and managing infrastructure through code, streamlining operations and promoting automation.

• Experience across engineering and leadership roles.

• Ability to lead large teams across complex projects, and shape the strategic and technical direction of the platform engineering team.

• Ability to provide strategic direction and set long-term team objectives.

• Proven experience implementing improvements to processes that span across the boundaries of your own teams.

• Led medium to large-sized teams of platform engineers.

Be a changemaker

You’ll enjoy:

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work

• A culture that celebrates performance

• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard

• Career-defining opportunities

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies

• Equity options, because this is your company too

• Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters

• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career

• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best

• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community

• Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams

• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook

• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families

Fuel your growth. Find your people.

At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority. We invest in you with continuous learning opportunities, global mobility and benefits designed to support you—all within a driven, diverse and inclusive team that’s passionate about empowering our communities

Please note that we ask applicants to disclose any criminal convictions, and we conduct criminal record checks as part of our hiring process for this role.

At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of $150,000 TO $185,000CAD. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.

Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario (update to BC if posted in Vancouver) and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?

Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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