AI-Driven SRE Leader — Scale & Reliability

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a senior SRE leader to set the strategic direction for our Maps serving infrastructure. This is a leadership role shaping where our infrastructure goes next, how our SRE practice evolves, and how we build teams and partnerships to achieve it.

You will lead an organization of SREs and own reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for serving platforms in collaboration with engineering, product, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years in SRE or related fields, with 10+ years in senior management.
• Experience leading SRE orgs for large-scale, user-facing services.
• Proven ability to communicate at the executive level and negotiate across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction for Maps serving infra and SRE practice.
• Lead an SRE org to ensure reliability, scalability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to shape the roadmap.

Skills

Senior management

SRE leadership

Linux fundamentals

Distributed systems

Networking at scale

AI tooling

LLM code evaluation

Executive communication

AI strategy execution

Incident & capacity planning

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

AIOps tooling

LLM-based tooling

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a senior SRE leader to set the strategic direction for our Maps serving infrastructure. This is a leadership role shaping where our infrastructure goes next, how our SRE practice evolves, and how we build teams and partnerships to achieve it.

You will lead an organization of SREs and own reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for serving platforms in collaboration with engineering, product, and operations teams.