Director, SRE

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

Summary

An SRE Director deploys and empowers Engineers and Engineering Managers per adjacent areas to deploy and run the product and increase Developer Experience. An SRE Director works directly with the main stakeholders to better allocate budget and people allocation based on roadmap.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices
• Solid knowledge of the tools and frameworks used at Remote
• Solid communication skills
• Solid organisation skills
• Solid understanding of prioritization and optimization processes
• Mentors others to inspire and instill confidence
• Works with Engineering managers to manage people allocation
• Works with the wider Engineering Department to ensure roadmap execution
• Understands and deploys growth initiatives
• Solid comprehension of department dynamics and team building
• Understand allocation dynamics of big groups of people and clearly articulates this
• Can manage a group of Engineers
• Solid experience hiring people
• Solid experience managing department budget
• Works across multiple departments of the business to ensure mission success
• Understands the leadership responsibilities and prioritises execution of company-wide strategy
• Proactively addresses issues across multiple departments by working with stakeholders
• Proactively participates in leadership debates and offers solutions to adjacent areas of expertise
• Works with all stakeholders to achieve global maxima for results

Etiquette

• Solid display of Remote 💎Values
• Proactively seeks new tools and frameworks that can improve the team’s productivity
• Clearly communicates needs and requirements to optimise productivity across teams
• Implements feedback and mentoring in all teams
• Suggests new initiatives and approaches to current problems
• Helps everyone grow continuously
• Clearly aligns mission and vision across multiple teams
• Publicly empowers the team and gives visibility to the work group successes

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve existing infrastructure
• Build the next generation of Remote platform: using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker.
• Streamline and automate deployment processes
• Work closely with the Security team to keep on top of potential threats/patches
• Support our engineers and product teams to improve overall scalability, stability and reliability
• Manage the SRE Team workplan, tasks and roadmap
• Participate in hiring, performance assessment and overall career lifecycle of all reports
• Own SRE department roadmap and implementation
• Own SRE team budget and allocation

Practicals

• You’ll report to: VP of Engineering
• Team: Site Reliability Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide – here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $188,800 to $265,500. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process

1. Recruiter interview
2. Hiring Manager
3. Technical Challenge/Exercise
4. Team interview with SRE team and Engineering
5. Bar raiser Interview
6. Executive Interview
7. Prior employment verification check

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Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

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