Senior Data Platform & SRE Lead (Remote)

Ladders

United States

Remote

USD 121,000 - 242,000

Full time

4 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan with company-paid life

Generous paid time off including Paren

Disability insurance

Company discounts

Tuition and education assistance

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead a data platform operations function focused on reliability, security, and scalable cloud delivery. This remote role partners with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to raise governance and reduce cost while elevating engineering standards.

You will mentor engineers, drive automation, and implement best practices in SRE and IaC across a large cloud environment.

Qualifications

5–7 years of software engineering or related field.
Proven leadership experience managing data operations or platform teams.
Deep expertise in large-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
Hands-on with tools like Databricks, Snowflake, or Apache Spark.
Strong background in data security, governance, and compliance.
Experience with cost optimization in cloud environments, especially GCP.
Knowledge of SRE practices and process automation.

Responsibilities

Lead the data platform operations team to enhance operational strategies.
Improve data security and governance compliance processes.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform to increase efficiency.
Optimize cloud costs across compute and storage resources.
Collaborate with security teams to strengthen access management protocols.
Apply SRE principles to improve deployment and operational resilience.
Mentor engineers to support high technical standards and continuous improvement.