Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Rippling, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Unlimited vacation

WFH stipend

Donation match

Learning stipend

Team off-sites

Job summary

Shippo is seeking an SRE Manager to lead a team building platforms, tooling, and infrastructure enabling product teams to operate reliably, performantly, and scalably. You will establish observability, deployment automation, and IaC foundations while driving automation and engineering productivity across the org.

You will mentor engineers, own the Kubernetes platform, and define SLOs/SLIs with a focus on self-service and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
• 9+ years as a software or systems engineer building platforms and tooling.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Expert-level experience designing and operating platforms that enable other engineering teams.
• Strong operational experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Deep expertise with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP).
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and deployment automation.
• Strong background in infrastructure-as-code tools and patterns (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Experience designing observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• Proficiency in Python or Go for tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of platform-focused SRE engineers with mentorship and career development.
• Build and maintain internal platforms and tooling for reliable deployments.
• Manage observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards).
• Own the Kubernetes platform and ensure scalable capacity planning.
• Implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and reliability metrics adoption.
• Design CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for safe releases.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code foundations and self-service capabilities.
• Drive cost optimization and disaster recovery planning.
• Coordinate with managers to align platform investments with product needs.

Skills

Engineering management

Kubernetes in production

Public cloud (AWS/GCP)

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pul

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD systems

Prometheus/Grafana

Python/Go

Job description

At Shippo, our vision is bold and clear: we are the shipping layer of the internet. Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.

As a remote-first and globally distributed team , we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.

Your impact starts here:

every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.

How we will deliver success together:

As the SRE Manager at Shippo, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that enable product teams to operate reliable, performant, and scalable services. You will establish frameworks for observability, deployment automation, and infrastructure management that allow product teams to own their service reliability. You will maintain a strong support oriented team while building automation and enabling engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization.

• Lead and develop a team of platform-focused SRE engineers, providing technical mentorship, career development, and performance management while fostering a culture of automation, self-service, and continuous improvement
• Build and maintain internal platforms and tooling that enable product teams to deploy, monitor, and operate their services reliably
• Manage observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards) that provide product teams visibility into their servicesOwn the infrastructure and Kubernetes platform that all Shippo services run on, ensuring it scales ahead of business needs through capacity planning and performance optimization
• Establish frameworks and tooling for SLO/SLI definition, error budget tracking, and reliability measurement that product teams can adopt
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release tooling that enable safe, frequent deployments
• Build infrastructure-as-code foundations and self-service capabilities that allow product teams to provision and manage their infrastructure
• Create automation to eliminate toil and prevent infrastructure problems before they impact product teams
• Drive infrastructure cost optimization initiatives through analysis, rightsizing recommendations, reserved capacity planning, and waste elimination across the cloud platform
• Participate in leadership rotation for Sev1 incidents affecting services or the platform itself
• Manage the SRE team’s on-call rotation
• Design, implement, and test disaster recovery capabilities and ensure infrastructure security and compliance
• Partner with Engineering Managers and TPMs to understand product team needs, prioritize platform investments, and communicate platform roadmap and capabilities
• Establish platform SLOs for infrastructure reliability, deployment success rates, build times, and other developer experience metrics

Your shipping requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on engineering management experience
• 9+ years as a software or systems engineer with deep experience building platforms, tooling, or infrastructure
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Expert-level experience designing and operating platforms that enable other engineering teams (internal platform-as-a-product experience)
• Strong operational experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including experience building Kubernetes platforms for application teams
• Deep expertise with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP) including networking, compute, storage, and managed services
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux, etc.)
• Strong background in infrastructure-as-code tools and patterns (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience designing and implementing observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language for tooling and automation (Python, Go, or similar)
• Experience establishing reliability frameworks (SLO/SLI/error budgets) that other teams can adoptUnderstanding of developer experience and ability to build self-service tooling that reduces friction
• Track record of designing disaster recovery solutions and implementing security and compliance best practices for infrastructure
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with ability to influence product teams and engineering leadership
• Deep understanding of enabling product team success through platform capabilities

What is in the Shippo Package?

• Healthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents). Pets coverage is also available!
• Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible workinghours
• One week-long company wide winter slow down
• WFH stipend to set up your home office
• Charity donation match up to $100
• Dedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth
• Fun team in person time through our Shippos Everywhere program which includes regular team and company off-sites throughout the year as well as local Shippos gatherings

Compensation

Our Compensation Ship policy:

We believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min is $175k to a max $238k annual salary (we tend to anchor our offers at the mid point $207k). Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.

Sail through the process:

Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at [e-mail]

Shippos in the wild:

Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.

For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by R ippling.com.