Senior SRE Lead: Hybrid Cloud Reliability & Automation

Devopsroles; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental

Home office stipend

Annual education stipend

Wellness stipend

Daily lunches

Job summary

Glean is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to foster a culture of engineering excellence, drive technical strategy, and develop a high-performing, collaborative team. Your role is pivotal in ensuring our services meet stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and in building resilient, automated production environments in the cloud.

You'll lead a team and be responsible for products globally, providing technical leadership to key projects and empowering your team to do the same.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years in a senior-level Site Reliability Engineering or similar role.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years of people management or leading teams.
• Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Practical experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Solid understanding of networking and security principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams to drive reliability and best practices.
• Ensure high availability by building resilient cloud architectures and proactive bottleneck resolution.
• Participate in on-call rotation and improve incident management with blameless postmortems.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling for deployment, monitoring, and management tasks.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with security engineers to implement security standards and policies.
• Design and configure advanced monitoring and alerting, dashboards, and playbooks for production on-call.
• Engage in the full software development lifecycle with system design reviews and launch support.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Software development

Incident management

Monitoring tools

Distributed systems

Networking & security

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Glean is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to foster a culture of engineering excellence, drive technical strategy, and develop a high-performing, collaborative team. Your role is pivotal in ensuring our services meet stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and in building resilient, automated production environments in the cloud.

You'll lead a team and be responsible for products globally, providing technical leadership to key projects and empowering your team to do the same.