Site Reliability Tech Lead & Manager

Jobgether; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Stock options

Remote-friendly

Health insurance (employer-paid)

Paid time off

Home office stipend

Parental leave

401(k)

Job summary

Jobgether seeks a technical leader to combine hands-on software engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and people leadership within a high-ownership team in the United States. You will lead 3–4 SREs while remaining deeply involved in coding, architecture, and incident response to improve reliability and delivery speed.

You will drive modernization, observability, and platform tooling, balancing technical debt with delivery needs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering with hands-on coding.
• 3+ years of platform engineering with DevOps/SRE principles.
• Experience owning technical direction and people management.
• Ability to be the final technical decision-maker without a separate Tech Lead.
• Experience with distributed systems and modern infra (AWS, Kubernetes, Vault, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Kafka/MSK, Redis/Valkey).
• Experience with Azure or GCP environments is welcome.
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures and Agile/ Scrum processes.
• Experience with Golang, TypeScript, and React is a plus.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3-4 Site Reliability Engineers and contribute hands-on to coding, architecture, and incident response.
• Own technical debt and modernization across the team's scope while balancing reliability and delivery.
• Maintain deep technical understanding of observability, DR, infrastructure, and platform initiatives.
• Drive reliability, platform adoption, and developer self-service improvements.
• Guide system design, architectural decisions, and perform code reviews.
• Manage career development, performance, hiring, and team health.
• Evolve Agile/Scrum/Kanban processes with engineering leadership.
• Balance delivery urgency with quality and long-term maintainability.
• Model AI-assisted development practices and broaden adoption across the team.
• Participate in onboarding, planning, reviews, on-call, and incident response.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Site Reliability Engineering

People leadership

Incident response

Observability

Disaster recovery

Infrastructure modernization

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

HashiCorp Vault

Grafana

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Kafka/MSK

Redis/Valkey

Golang

TypeScript

React

AI-assisted development tools

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

kops

HashiCorp Vault

Grafana

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Kafka/MSK

Redis/Valkey

Azure

GCP

Job description

Jobgether seeks a technical leader to combine hands-on software engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and people leadership within a high-ownership team in the United States. You will lead 3–4 SREs while remaining deeply involved in coding, architecture, and incident response to improve reliability and delivery speed.

You will drive modernization, observability, and platform tooling, balancing technical debt with delivery needs.