Remote SRE Engineering Manager — Lead Reliability

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote is hiring a Team Leader for the SRE/Platform Engineering group. The role is 60% individual contributor and 40% leadership, focusing on career development, setting team priorities, and speaking for the team across engineering. You will stay close to technical work to guide direction and stay ahead of incidents.

The role requires hands-on SRE/DevOps experience, strong leadership, and the ability to balance operational load with project delivery in a fully remote, global environment.

Qualifications

• Leadership in SRE or platform engineering teams.
• Hands-on with site reliability, DevOps or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with incident response, on-call, and SLOs/error budgets.
• Knowledge of distributed tracing and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE team with a 60/40 IC/leadership split.
• Own career development and performance of reports.
• Set priorities aligned with company goals and communicate across engineering.
• Oversee incident management, on-call rotations and reliability practices.

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

PostgreSQL

Linux

Job description

Remote is hiring a Team Leader for the SRE/Platform Engineering group. The role is 60% individual contributor and 40% leadership, focusing on career development, setting team priorities, and speaking for the team across engineering. You will stay close to technical work to guide direction and stay ahead of incidents.

The role requires hands-on SRE/DevOps experience, strong leadership, and the ability to balance operational load with project delivery in a fully remote, global environment.