Director of SRE Engineering for AI Security & Cloud

Jobot; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobot is hiring a Director of Engineering focused on Site Reliability Engineering for a fast-growing AI security startup. This fully remote role leads a highly technical SRE organization, shaping reliability, scalability, and production excellence across cloud infrastructure.

You will mentor senior engineers, define ownership and discipline across AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and observability, and drive incident response improvements while balancing short- and long-term platform investments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technical SRE/infra organization.
• Proven ability to balance reliability with fast-moving startup needs.
• Strong cloud and distributed systems expertise with production-grade platforms.
• Able to mentor senior engineers and shape engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a highly technical SRE organization focused on reliability and operational excellence.
• Mentor and grow senior-level engineers; set ownership and accountability.
• Define and uphold SLIs/SLOs, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning.
• Influence architecture decisions across AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling.

Skills

SRE

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Automation

Observability

Production operations

Leadership

Mentorship

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Job description

Jobot is hiring a Director of Engineering focused on Site Reliability Engineering for a fast-growing AI security startup. This fully remote role leads a highly technical SRE organization, shaping reliability, scalability, and production excellence across cloud infrastructure.

You will mentor senior engineers, define ownership and discipline across AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and observability, and drive incident response improvements while balancing short- and long-term platform investments.