Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

formenergy; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Form Energy is hiring a Manager, Site Reliability Engineer to lead the operational function responsible for reliability, availability, and supportability of our deployed energy storage systems. You’ll own fleet monitoring, incident response, field triage, and enable scalable operations as we grow to a commercial fleet.

You will collaborate with software, firmware, controls, hardware, field service, and customer teams to automate processes, develop diagnostic playbooks, and define telemetry and

Qualifications

• 12+ years in production, industrial, energy or cyber-physical systems with leadership experience.
• Experience leading SRE/DevOps teams in highly automated environments.
• Strong ability to diagnose cross-domain issues (software, firmware, hardware).

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Operations Assurance with a DevOps-first approach to fleet monitoring, incident response, field triage, engineering escalation, and production support.
• Build a highly automated operating model to support a rapidly growing deployed fleet.
• Establish incident management processes, including severity definitions and post-incident reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional engineering response across software, firmware, controls, networking, hardware and site infrastructure.
• Develop diagnostic playbooks and operational tooling to improve first-line response.
• Partner with Data, Analytics, and Cloud Applications teams to define telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and workflows.
• Define operational readiness for new product releases and deployments.
• Analyze incidents and fleet data to identify recurring failure modes and drive improvements.
• Establish and track metrics like fleet availability and incident frequency.

Skills

Production incident response

SRE leadership

DevOps

Observability

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Telemetry dashboards

Incident management tools

Job description

Are you ready to build America's energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We're revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what's possible, we're giving clean energy a whole new form!

In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a \"Best Invention\", MIT Technology Review as a \"Top Climate Tech Company To Watch\", and Fast Company as \"One of the Next Big Things In Tech\". We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia.

Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it's a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company's history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.

Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you've come to the right place.

Relocation assistance is available.

Role Description

Form Energy is hiring a Manager, Site Reliability Engineer to lead the operational function responsible for maintaining the reliability, availability, and supportability of our deployed energy storage systems. This role will own the mechanisms used to monitor fleet health, respond to incidents, triage field issues, coordinate engineering escalation, and ensure new products and releases are operationally ready. As Form Energy moves from early deployments to a growing commercial fleet, a key objective of this role is to scale operational capacity through automation, tooling, and product design improvements. The successful candidate will work across software, firmware, controls, hardware, field service, and customer-facing teams to build the scalable processes and capabilities required to enable reliable fleet operations.

What you'll do:

• Lead Product Operations Assurance with a DevOps first principals approach to fleet monitoring, incident response, field triage, engineering escalation, and production support.
• Build a highly automated operating model that enables the team to support a rapidly growing deployed fleet, managing operational work through automation and driving product design improvements that reduce sustaining engineering overhead.
• Establish incident management processes, including severity definitions, escalation paths, incident command, communications, and post-incident reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional engineering response to complex issues spanning software, firmware, controls, networking, hardware, and site infrastructure.
• Develop diagnostic playbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and operational tooling that improve first-line response and reduce dependence on individual experts.
• Partner with Data, Analytics, and Cloud Applications teams to define the telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and workflows required to effectively monitor and support the fleet.
• Define operational readiness requirements for new product releases and deployments, including monitoring, diagnostics, recovery procedures, escalation paths, and support documentation.
• Analyze incidents and fleet data to identify recurring failure modes and drive reliability, diagnosability, and serviceability improvements back into the product.
• Establish and track operational metrics such as fleet availability, incident frequency, time to detection, time to containment, time to recovery, and recurrence.
• Build the team, processes, on-call model, and automation required to scale fleet operations as the installed base grows.

What you'll bring:

• 12+ years of experience supporting complex production, industrial, energy, infrastructure, automotive, robotics, or other cyber-physical systems, including technical leadership or people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading production incident response, technical troubleshooting, escalation management, and root-cause investigation in deployed systems.
• Experience leading SRE, DevOps, or production operations teams in highly automated environments, with a track record of scaling operational capacity through software, tooling, and product improvements.
• Strong ability to diagnose and coordinate resolution of problems spanning software, firmware, controls, networking, hardware, and field operations.
• Experience with operational monitoring, observability,