Engineering Team Lead SRE

SmartRecruiters Inc; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters is seeking an Engineering Team Lead specializing in SRE to keep production reliable and observable. You will split time between hands-on work and management, shaping tooling and practices that boost system resilience.

You will mentor engineers, drive SRE initiatives, and partner with JVM-based and other stacks to ensure highly available services. This role supports a remote-friendly, hybrid environment with strong emphasis on collaboration and excellence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering or SRE.
• Knowledge of SRE and observability standards (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on-call).
• Experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, IaC tools, and monitoring (ELK stack).
• Linux troubleshooting and performance tuning capabilities.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Go, or Python.
• Excellent English communication and coaching abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the SRE/DevOps team to improve reliability and resilience.
• Develop and advocate modern SRE practices across the organization.
• Collaborate with Java, Python, and Node.js engineers to ensure highly available systems.
• Respond to incidents, drive remediation, and implement follow-up improvements.
• Document standards for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability.
• Drive cross‑team SRE initiatives and a culture of DevOps.
• Provide technical vision and leadership for the team.
• Coach engineers and grow high‑performing teams.

Skills

SRE leadership

Observability practices

Team coaching

English communication

DevOps culture champion

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

IaC tooling

ELK stack

Linux

Bash

Golang

Python

Job description

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.
At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.
Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

Job Description

The SmartRecruiters is looking for an Engineering Team Lead that specializes in SRE. If you are passionate about keeping production up and running in a great manner, we have a spot with your name on it!

In this role you can expect spending 60% of the time on hands‑on contribution, 40% for managerial activities.

You will:

• Improve, automate and grow SmartRecruiters observability and reliability tooling
• Be an advocate for modern SRE practices
• Partner with Java, Python and Node.js engineers across R&D department to pursue highly available and reliable systems
• Respond to production incidents and client threats, lead remediation, and drive follow‑up improvements
• Document standards, best practices, and policies for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability
• Leading SRE‑related initiatives across SmartRecruiters
• Refine and drive DevOps culture for the whole organization
• Provide technical vision and leadership for the team
• Mentor and coach members of the engineering team

We want you to:

• Make a difference
• Do the right thing, not the "easy" thing
• Partner with our engineering team

Qualifications

• While not strictly required, most of our Team Leads have 7+ years of professional experience
• Working knowledge of SRE and observability industry standards and best practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on‑call)
• Solid experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, IaC tools and practices, monitoring tools (ELK stack), running and troubleshooting distributed applications
• Knowledge of the Linux operating system, with a focus on troubleshooting performance issues
• Very good scripting skills (Bash, Golang or Python)
• Strong communication skills, with a good understanding of English, both verbal and written
• Ability to coach and influence developers, lead company‑wide initiatives, guide high‑performing team of SRE engineers
• Commercial software development experience in JVM stack is a plus
• Understanding of networking standards, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN and load balancing is a plus

Additional Information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics