Director of SRE & Platform Reliability

Stellar; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Gym reimbursement

401K

Commuter benefits

HSA

Company retreats

Job summary

Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a distributed SRE team and shape how engineering owns, operates, and improves production services.

You will set vision, operating model, and culture for SRE while owning core infrastructure services like cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and automation. Strong leadership and pragmatic judgment are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE, infra, or related roles.
• 5+ years leading or developing infrastructure/reliability engineers.
• Deep technical judgment across cloud infra, distributed systems, risk, and automation.
• 3+ years in modern cloud infra (AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a distributed SRE team with a clear vision and priorities.
• Roll out a Service Ownership & Maturity Framework across engineering.
• Own core infra services: cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, secrets.
• Improve reliability, runbooks, dashboards, and on-call practices.
• Mature incident response, postmortems, and cross‑org collaboration.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Executive communication

Tools

GitHub workflows

Job description

Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a distributed SRE team and shape how engineering owns, operates, and improves production services.

You will set vision, operating model, and culture for SRE while owning core infrastructure services like cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and automation. Strong leadership and pragmatic judgment are essential.