Cloud & SRE Engineering Manager — Lead Resilience

Sonar; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits package

23 days PTO per year

401(k) with 4% match

Free parking downtown Austin

Global workforce

Job summary

Sonar in Austin, TX seeks an experienced Engineering Manager for Cloud Operations and SRE to lead a team of Cloud and Site Reliability Engineers. You will guide reliability, performance and security across SonarQube Cloud and Server, delivering scalable, secure software for our AI code review platform.

You’ll drive on-call, incident response, automation, cost optimization, and collaborate with cross-functional squads to meet developer needs while upholding governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with focus on SRE, cloud operations, or infra engineering.
• Deep DevOps mindset and experience with mission-critical shared services (Aurora, OpenSearch).
• Advanced AWS knowledge and experience managing large-scale infrastructures.
• Experience with IaC and code reviews for infrastructure (Python, CDK, Terraform).
• Observability patterns and disaster recovery planning expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of Cloud and Site Reliability Engineers, providing guidance and mentorship.
• Uphold high engineering standards for reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage the team’s on-call load, incident response, and automate toil away.
• Foster blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
• Collaborate with value stream squads to ensure production platform meets developers’ needs and governance.
• Define squad vision aligned with platform roadmap; focus on resiliency and cost optimization.
• Partner with Hiring to recruit engineers and improve hiring processes.
• Lead by example with servant leadership and high-stakes decisions.

Skills

SRE

Cloud Operations

Infrastructure Eng

DevOps Mindset

Cost Optimization

Observability

Agile

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CDK

Python

Job description

Sonar in Austin, TX seeks an experienced Engineering Manager for Cloud Operations and SRE to lead a team of Cloud and Site Reliability Engineers. You will guide reliability, performance and security across SonarQube Cloud and Server, delivering scalable, secure software for our AI code review platform.

You’ll drive on-call, incident response, automation, cost optimization, and collaborate with cross-functional squads to meet developer needs while upholding governance.