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# Engineering Manager, SRE

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## About this role.

AI SummaryThis Engineering Manager, SRE role leads a four-person Site Reliability Engineering team while remaining 60% hands-on and 40% focused on people leadership. The manager owns reliability priorities, on-call operations, SLO adoption, incident response, observability, and core infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS/TLS, and CI systems. The role requires proven coaching, hiring, performance management, cross-functional influence, and strong written communication in an asynchronous global environment. It also calls for technical depth in Terraform, Docker, shell scripting, cloud operations, AI infrastructure, and regulated-environment practices. This is a globally remote role with particular support for EMEA and APAC overlap.

## Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

### Job Complexity

5/5EasyHard

### Pace & Pressure

5/5RelaxedFast-paced

### Autonomy Level

5/5GuidedFull ownership

### Communication Load

5/5IndependentCollaborative

AI insightThe position combines accountable people management with substantial technical ownership of business-critical production infrastructure and reliability practices. Success requires balancing incident-driven operational work, strategic platform delivery, compliance needs, and stakeholder alignment in a distributed async organization.

## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianBelow market$122,575US market range$160k–$220k0$242k

AI insightThe disclosed annual base-salary range is $75,450 to $169,700 USD, with a midpoint of $122,575 USD. The broad range reflects Remote's location-based global compensation approach. For a US-market Engineering Manager, SRE position with Kubernetes, AWS, incident-management, and people-leadership scope, an estimated market base-salary range is $160,000 to $220,000 USD annually; total compensation may be higher when equity is included.

## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

[Site Reliability Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Site%20Reliability%20Engineering.md)[Engineering Management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Engineering%20Management.md)[Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Kubernetes.md)[AWS](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AWS.md)[PostgreSQL](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=PostgreSQL.md)[Terraform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Terraform.md)[CI/CD](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=CICD.md)[Observability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Observability.md)[Incident Response](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Incident%20Response.md)[SLOs and Error Budgets](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=SLOs%20and%20Error%20Budgets.md)

Sample interview questionsHow would you expand an SLO framework from a few teams to the wider engineering organization?I would start by identifying critical user journeys and partnering with service owners to define a small number of meaningful SLIs and SLOs. I would establish consistent error-budget policies, dashboards, alerting standards, and review rituals, then use early adoption results to create practical playbooks and demonstrate value before scaling.

How do you balance unplanned operational work with committed platform projects?

I make operational demand visible through incident, support, and on-call metrics, then reserve explicit capacity for it during planning. When reliability work exceeds that allocation, I use agreed prioritization criteria and error-budget signals to reset commitments transparently with stakeholders rather than allowing hidden overtime to absorb the load.

Describe your approach to managing a serious production incident as an engineering leader.

I ensure clear incident command, establish a factual communication cadence, and prioritize customer impact mitigation over root-cause speculation. After recovery, I facilitate a blameless review that produces owned, measurable follow-up actions and verifies that lessons are incorporated into architecture, monitoring, runbooks, or operating processes.

How would you develop an SRE who is technically strong but struggles with collaboration?

I would give direct, specific feedback tied to observable behaviors and the impact on peers and delivery. Together we would set a development plan with practical opportunities such as leading a design review, improving incident communications, or mentoring with structured feedback, and I would review progress regularly.

What would you evaluate when reviewing a Kubernetes platform design at meaningful scale?

I would assess availability architecture, capacity management, deployment safety, cluster and workload security, observability, disaster recovery, and operational simplicity. I would also examine tenant isolation, upgrade strategy, cost controls, failure modes, and whether the design provides teams with clear, self-service paths that do not compromise reliability.

### About Remote

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.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

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!

### What this job can offer you

Remote’s SRE team exists so that our engineers can move quickly and our customers get a product that stays up. The team owns Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI infrastructure, our observability stack and the reliability practices that sits on top of all of it.

We are looking for a Team Leader to run that team. This is a 60% IC, 40% leadership role. You will own the career development of your reports, steer the teams focus using judgment against the company goals, and you will be the spokesperson for the team across engineering. You will also stay close enough to the technical work to set direction with credibility and to know when something is going wrong before it is escalated to you.

Reliability practice at Remote is maturing rather than mature. Our SLO framework is live on its first few teams and needs to reach the rest, there is real work to do on how we balance operational load against project delivery. If you want a team where the foundations are in place and the interesting problems are still open, this is that team.

### What you bring

### People leadership

* You have led an SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering team, and you have owned your reports’ growth, performance and career progression rather than just their sprints.
* You coach both craft and the soft skills, you can point to people who grew because of it.
* You handle underperformance directly and early, with clarity and empathy.
* You have hired engineers, and you can tell the difference between a good interview and a good engineer.
* You read team dynamics well and you resolve conflict rather than routing around it.
* You have a natural talent fostering commitment to the goals of the company.

### Technical depth

* A hands-on background in site reliability, DevOps or cloud infrastructure engineering, deep enough that you can review your team’s work, challenge a design and be taken seriously in an incident.
* Kubernetes in production, including the operational reality of it rather than the happy path.
* AWS at meaningful scale.
* Hands on AI building, enablement, scaling AI infrastructure.
* Solid o11y practices and principles,
* Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
* CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
* Docker and shell scripting.
* You have run a reliability practice: incident response, on-call, SLOs and error budgets, and the discipline of turning incidents into changes that stick.
* Understanding and history of working in regulated environments.

### Ways of working

* You prioritise exceptionally well when operational load and project work compete, and you protect your team’s focus without dropping the operational commitment.
* You write clearly. Remote is fully distributed and async, so most of your leadership will happen in writing.
* You build relationships across teams. A lot of SRE’s value comes from being the team others bring problems to early.

### Nice to have

* Working knowledge of a backend language, ideally Elixir, or otherwise Java, Clojure, Node.js, Python or similar.
* Depth in modern observability: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and tools such as Honeycomb.
* Database operations experience, particularly PostgreSQL or Aurora performance, connection pool health and query tuning.
* Running and configuring Linux systems outside a cloud environment.
* Security capability from both a defensive and an offensive standpoint.
* Cloud cost management and FinOps.
* Experience growing a team from a small base, including building the hiring bar as you go.

### Key Responsibilities

### Your people

* The full career lifecycle of your reports: onboarding, feedback, performance assessment, progression and hiring.
* Team health, dynamics and the retrospective habit that keeps them honest.
* Being the team’s spokesperson to the rest of engineering and to senior leadership.

### Delivery

* The SRE goals: what the team commits to, in what order, and why.
* The support rotation and on-call model.

### The platform

* Remote’s core infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS and TLS, CI infrastructure.
* The reliability practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response and the observability stack.
* The partnership with our Security team on threats, patching and infrastructure controls, including our audit and compliance obligations.
* The vendor relationships that sit behind the platform, including renewals and commercial conversations with support from your Director.

### Practicals

* You will report to: Director of Engineering, Platform
* Team: Site Reliability Engineering, part of Platform Engineering
* Direct reports: 4
* Location: Anywhere in the world. Our current coverage is strongest in EMEA and APAC, so candidates who overlap with either, or who can help us close the Americas gap, are especially welcome.
* Start date: As soon as possible

### Application process

* Interview with recruiter
* Interview with hiring manager
* Scenario interview with a peer team leader
* Executive interview
* Bar Raiser interview
* Offer + [Prior employment verification check](https://www.notion.so/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b)

#LI-DNP

Remote’s [Total Rewards philosophy](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c) 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.

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.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$75,450—$169,700 USD

### Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at [remote.com/r/benefits](http://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](https://remote.com/async))
* 16 weeks paid parental leave
* budget towards [co-working spaces, learning and wellness](https://app.notion.com/p/remotecom/Benefits-Perks-1e48a5869c274f40910b76d405b92f63?source=copy_link#3accb4dadab48025b7a6dbc23bc47504) (including gym memberships)
* mental health support services
* stock options
* home office budget & IT equipment

### 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](https://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

* Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
* We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
* 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.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

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.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote’s AI guidelines check see [here](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/Guidelines-on-using-AI-when-applying-for-a-job-at-Remote-11ccb4dadab4805f80a7c73b6567bd8f).

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

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