Director, Site Reliability & Platform Engineering

techchaintalent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Development Foundation seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of 4 SREs and shape how engineering teams own, operate, and improve production services. This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO and will set vision, operating model, and culture for SRE across core infrastructure.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical judgment with pragmatic leadership to enable reliable, scalable services and high developer productivity across a distributed

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE or related engineering roles.
• 5+ years leading infrastructure or reliability teams.
• 3+ years cloud infra experience in AWS or GCP.
• 3+ years Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and deployment safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed SRE team of 4 with a clear vision and priorities.
• Define and roll out a Service Ownership and Maturity Framework across engineering.
• Own and improve core infrastructure services, including cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and automation.
• Help engineering teams become stronger owners and operators of their services.
• Make reliability and developer productivity measurable via metrics and operational intelligence.
• Improve deployment automation, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Mature incident response, escalation, and postmortems across a distributed team.
• Build self-service infrastructure to reduce toil and speed up delivery.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Strategic thinking

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Stellar Development Foundation seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of 4 SREs and shape how engineering teams own, operate, and improve production services. This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO and will set vision, operating model, and culture for SRE across core infrastructure.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical judgment with pragmatic leadership to enable reliable, scalable services and high developer productivity across a distributed