Engineering Manager, SRE

Slashhash; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Slashhash seeks an Engineering Manager, SRE to lead a globally distributed Site Reliability Engineering team. You will drive reliability across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD pipelines, shaping incident response, observability, and IaC practices.

You will stay hands-on when needed, mentor engineers, partner with security, and balance operational work with strategic projects in a fully remote, asynchronous setting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical depth in Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, observability and IaC.
• Proven people leadership experience and ability to manage career progression.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a Site Reliability Engineering team, owning onboarding, feedback, performance management, progression, coaching, and hiring.
• Establish team direction and priorities aligned with company goals, balancing operations with project delivery.
• Serve as the team's spokesperson to engineering and senior leadership, communicating priorities and risks clearly.
• Own SRE delivery goals, decide commitments, prioritization and operational responsibilities.
• Design and maintain effective on-call processes and incident response practices.
• Provide technical leadership across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS, TLS, CI infrastructure and platform.

Skills

People leadership

SRE expertise

Written communication

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Prioritization

Collaboration

Adaptability

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Shell scripting

DNS

TLS

AI infrastructure

Job description

Engineering Manager, SRE needed to lead a Site Reliability Engineering team for a globally distributed technology platform. Requires hands-on technical depth in Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code, plus proven people leadership experience. Fully remote, asynchronous environment with a salary range of USD $75,450–$169,700.

Technical (Must-have)

• Kubernetes
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• CI/CD
• Observability
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• GitLab CI
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Shell scripting
• DNS
• TLS
• AI infrastructure

Soft Skills

• Prioritization
• Written communication
• Documentation
• Relationship-building
• Collaboration
• Conflict resolution
• Stakeholder management
• Coaching
• Judgment
• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Curiosity

Technical (Nice-to-have)

• Elixir
• Java
• Clojure
• Node.js
• Python
• OpenTelemetry
• Distributed tracing
• Honeycomb
• Aurora
• Linux systems administration
• Security
• FinOps
• Cloud cost management

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a Site Reliability Engineering team, owning the full career lifecycle of direct reports including onboarding, feedback, performance management, progression, coaching, and hiring.
• Establish a clear team direction and priorities aligned with broader company goals, balancing operational commitments with project delivery and protecting the team’s focus.
• Serve as the team's spokesperson across engineering and with senior leadership, communicating priorities, progress, risks, and technical challenges clearly.
• Own SRE delivery goals, deciding what the team commits to, how work is prioritized, and how operational responsibilities are managed.
• Design and maintain effective support rotations and on-call processes while strengthening incident response practices.
• Provide technical leadership across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS and TLS, CI infrastructure, and the broader infrastructure platform.
• Guide the development of reliability practices including SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
• Partner closely with Security on infrastructure threats, patching, controls, audits, and compliance obligations.
• Manage relationships with infrastructure and platform vendors, including renewals and commercial discussions with support from senior leadership.
• Remain hands-on enough to review technical work, challenge architectural decisions, participate credibly in incidents, and identify emerging reliability issues before they escalated.
• Build strong relationships across engineering and encourage teams to bring operational and reliability challenges forward early.
• Continuously improve team health, collaboration, conflict resolution, and retrospective practices.

Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Observability, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Shell scripting, DNS, TLS, AI infrastructure