Engineering Team Leader – Site Reliability Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Cultivate and expand a high-performing Site Reliability Engineering team, promoting technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Establish and steer the SRE platform strategy in partnership with infrastructure and development teams.

• Supervise the organization-wide reliability strategy, ensuring architectural alignment, scalability, and the adoption of SRE best practices.

• Take ownership of 24/7 on-call and incident management processes.

• Manage incident tooling, develop operational procedures, ensure compliance with regulations, oversee reporting, and enhance incident response strategies.

• Define and monitor team performance KPIs and management metrics.

• Oversee the design, development, and advancement of the organization-wide observability ecosystem.

• Lead the implementation of standardized telemetry, including structured logging, distributed tracing, and intelligent sampling.

• Deconstruct complex projects into actionable tasks and promote incremental value delivery.

• Mentor team members and facilitate their professional development.

• Conduct workshops, foster a technical community, and mediate conflicts.

• Promote operational excellence and a culture of reliability, lead incident management efforts, and advocate for post-mortems.

• Manage technical debt and align team output with the organization's objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles managing large-scale, distributed environments.

• Proven experience in formal management, leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing SRE or DevOps engineering teams.

• Extensive background in building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure systems across Azure, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments.

• Demonstrated capability to deliver comprehensive reliability strategies, drive architectural enhancements, and manage large-scale technical projects from design to production.

• Proven ability to foster cultural change, act as a strategic partner to product engineering teams, and collaborate effectively with distributed/remote teams.

• Strong proficiency in Python for scalable automation, internal tools, and scripting purposes.

• Expertise in Kubernetes and Ansible for configuration management.

• Ability to design resilient infrastructure both on Azure and on-premises.

• Deep expertise in standardized telemetry systems.

• Mastery of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, ELK, Tempo, Thanos, or similar technologies.

• Experience utilizing AI/ML for AIOps, anomaly detection, log analysis, and optimizing reliability workflows.

• Nice to have: Experience with commercial APM platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, or New Relic, and chaos engineering tools.

• Nice to have: Proficiency in cloud cost management and FinOps principles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant influence on the development of the company and its products.

• Work alongside an experienced team eager to share knowledge.

• Clear development vision supported by regular feedback and well-defined career paths.

• Regular team-building events.

• A training budget for courses and conferences that interest you.

• An additional day off on your birthday.

• An extra day off for parents.

• Equipment customized to your requirements.

• Private medical care and group insurance.

• Access to an e-learning platform for English language learning and a benefits platform.

• Access to a wellbeing platform, including opportunities for workshops and private therapy sessions.

• Flexibility to work remotely, from the office in Warsaw, or from a coworking space in your city.