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Engineering Manager, SRE

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Netherlands

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Engineering Manager, SRE needed to lead a Site Reliability Engineering team for a globally distributed technology platform. Requires hands-on technical depth in Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code, plus proven people leadership experience. Fully remote, asynchronous environment with a salary range of USD $75,450–$169,700.

HybridFull-timeSeniorKubernetesAWS

Engineering Manager, SRE

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HybridFull-timeSeniorKubernetes

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Hybrid; environment is fully remote and asynchronous

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Associate

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

KubernetesAWSPostgreSQLCI/CDObservabilityInfrastructure as CodeTerraformGitLab CIGitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerShell scriptingDNSTLSAI infrastructure

Soft Skills

PrioritizationWritten communicationDocumentationRelationship-buildingCollaborationConflict resolutionStakeholder managementCoachingJudgmentAccountabilityAdaptabilityCuriosity

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

ElixirJavaClojureNode.jsPythonOpenTelemetryDistributed tracingHoneycombAuroraLinux systems administrationSecurityFinOpsCloud cost management

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and develop a Site Reliability Engineering team, owning the full career lifecycle of direct reports including onboarding, feedback, performance management, progression, coaching, and hiring.
•Establish a clear team direction and priorities aligned with broader company goals, balancing operational commitments with project delivery and protecting the team’s focus.
•Serve as the team's spokesperson across engineering and with senior leadership, communicating priorities, progress, risks, and technical challenges clearly.
•Own SRE delivery goals, deciding what the team commits to, how work is prioritized, and how operational responsibilities are managed.
•Design and maintain effective support rotations and on-call processes while strengthening incident response practices.
•Provide technical leadership across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS and TLS, CI infrastructure, and the broader infrastructure platform.
•Guide the development of reliability practices including SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
•Partner closely with Security on infrastructure threats, patching, controls, audits, and compliance obligations.
•Manage relationships with infrastructure and platform vendors, including renewals and commercial discussions with support from senior leadership.
•Remain hands-on enough to review technical work, challenge architectural decisions, participate credibly in incidents, and identify emerging reliability issues before they escalate.
•Build strong relationships across engineering and encourage teams to bring operational and reliability challenges forward early.
•Continuously improve team health, collaboration, conflict resolution, and retrospective practices.

Engineering ManagerSRESite Reliability EngineeringKubernetesAWSRemoteFull-timeInternet Marketplace PlatformsInfrastructureLeadership

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

KubernetesAWSPostgreSQLCI/CDObservabilityInfrastructure as CodeTerraformGitLab CIGitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerShell scriptingDNSTLSAI infrastructure

Soft Skills

PrioritizationWritten communicationDocumentationRelationship-buildingCollaborationConflict resolutionStakeholder managementCoachingJudgmentAccountabilityAdaptabilityCuriosity

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and develop a Site Reliability Engineering team, owning the full career lifecycle of direct reports including onboarding, feedback, performance management, progression, coaching, and hiring.

•Establish a clear team direction and priorities aligned with broader company goals, balancing operational commitments with project delivery and protecting the team’s focus.

•Serve as the team's spokesperson across engineering and with senior leadership, communicating priorities, progress, risks, and technical challenges clearly.

•Own SRE delivery goals, deciding what the team commits to, how work is prioritized, and how operational responsibilities are managed.

•Design and maintain effective support rotations and on-call processes while strengthening incident response practices.

•Provide technical leadership across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS and TLS, CI infrastructure, and the broader infrastructure platform.

•Guide the development of reliability practices including SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, and post-incident improvements.

•Partner closely with Security on infrastructure threats, patching, controls, audits, and compliance obligations.

•Manage relationships with infrastructure and platform vendors, including renewals and commercial discussions with support from senior leadership.

•Remain hands-on enough to review technical work, challenge architectural decisions, participate credibly in incidents, and identify emerging reliability issues before they escalate.

•Build strong relationships across engineering and encourage teams to bring operational and reliability challenges forward early.

•Continuously improve team health, collaboration, conflict resolution, and retrospective practices.