SRE Leader

Starry Recruitment; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Starry Recruitment is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leader to build and lead an on-site team in Singapore. The role combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering to improve the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of a global SaaS platform.

You will design internal platforms, automation, developer tools, and AI-enabled engineering solutions to boost productivity, reliability, and operational excellence while partnering with

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/SRE/DevOps with leadership
• Experience delivering projects from design to production
• Strong distributed systems and high-availability knowledge
• Hands-on with AWS, CI/CD, and observability
• Experience with incident response and production ops
• Experience applying AI tools to engineering workflows
• Proven mentorship and cross-functional leadership
• Mandarin proficiency is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Singapore-based SRE team, setting direction and priorities.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, availability across a global SaaS platform.
• Drive end-to-end technical projects from architecture to production rollout.
• Build internal platforms, developer tools, and automation.
• Maintain 24/7 on-call operations and lead incident response.
• Develop observability, governance, release safety metrics.
• Apply AI tools/agents to improve productivity and quality.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security across regions.
• Foster ownership culture and continuous improvement.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Distributed systems

High availability

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

AI tools usage

Mentorship

Communication

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

AI tools platforms

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leader

Work Arrangement: On-site

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on SRE Leader with a strong software engineering background to build and lead an SRE team in Singapore.

In this role, you will combine technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering to improve the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of a global SaaS platform.

You will also play an important role in building internal platforms, automation, developer tools, and AI-enabled engineering solutions to improve engineering productivity and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and develop the Singapore-based SRE team, setting technical direction and engineering priorities.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, security, availability, and engineering efficiency across a global SaaS platform.
• Lead technical projects end-to-end, from architecture and design through development, deployment, and production rollout.
• Design and build internal platforms, developer tools, and automation to solve recurring engineering and operational challenges.
• Establish and maintain 24/7 on-call operations, participate in incident response, and lead major incident management and post-incident improvements.
• Develop and improve observability, service governance, reliability targets, and release safety.
• Identify and implement practical applications of AI tools and AI agents to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and system reliability.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Security, and other technical teams across multiple regions.
• Drive engineering best practices and foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a related technical field, including experience leading an engineering team.
• Proven experience delivering software or engineering projects from design through production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, high-availability architecture, and SaaS platforms.
• Hands-on experience with:
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Observability / Monitoring
• Production operations and incident response
• Practical experience applying AI tools or AI agents to engineering workflows, with the ability to evaluate their output and turn successful approaches into repeatable engineering practices.
• Strong technical judgment, ownership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical teams, and drive cross-functional projects.
• Mandarin proficiency is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building internal platforms, developer tools, or AI-powered engineering applications from the ground up.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
• Experience developing and deploying AI-enabled tools or workflows adopted by engineering teams.
• Experience working in a high-growth technology or SaaS environment.