Senior SRE & Performance Engineering Lead

Omnissa; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Health insurance

401k with matching

Job summary

Omnissa seeks a Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Performance Engineering to lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for its distributed SaaS platform. This hands-on technical leadership role collaborates with development, security, SaaS operations, and product teams to ensure services are designed and operated for scale, resilience, and efficient performance.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years in leadership, and a strong

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale systems.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership/management roles (SRE/Platform).
• Experience building and operating distributed systems and backend services.
• Strong Linux, containers, and cloud infrastructure knowledge.
• Experience with observability tooling and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow SRE and performance teams, shaping culture of ownership.
• Define and drive SRE/performance strategy, goals, and readiness criteria.
• Partner with engineering to design for reliability and scalability from inception.
• Establish SLI/SLOs, error budgets, and production readiness standards.
• Lead performance engineering: benchmarking, profiling, capacity planning, regression testing.
• Drive observability strategy with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts.
• Lead incident responses and postmortems, driving systemic improvements.
• Collaborate on system design reviews for scalability and resilience.
• Integrate capacity forecasting into CI/CD and deployment processes.
• Improve platform efficiency, automation, and cost-aware engineering decisions.
• Define KPIs for reliability and performance and track them.
• Coordinate with Product/Engineering/Sec/Cloud/SaaS Ops for secure, resilient services.

Skills

SRE principles

SLIs/SLOs

Observability

Incident management

Performance engineering

Capacity planning

Cloud experience

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Docker

Nomad

Consul

Vault

Job description

Omnissa seeks a Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Performance Engineering to lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for its distributed SaaS platform. This hands-on technical leadership role collaborates with development, security, SaaS operations, and product teams to ensure services are designed and operated for scale, resilience, and efficient performance.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years in leadership, and a strong