Senior Manager - Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Manager - Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of 8+ Site Reliability Engineers within our core platform engineering organization. The team supports a high-throughput, low-latency distributed platform that processes more than 500 billion requests daily, with stringent performance requirements where every millisecond matters.
As a leader, you will own the reliability charter for this platform: setting technical direction, growing engineers, partnering with product and development leadership, and ensuring the infrastructure is resilient, scalable, and always available.
The team is also evolving rapidly toward agentic AI. You should be well-versed in the contemporary AI ecosystem and capable of driving the adoption of AI-powered tools, workflows, and automation frameworks that improve engineering productivity, operational excellence, and platform reliability.

What You'll Do People Leadership & Team Management
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 8-10 SREs across varying experience levels,



fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and psychological safety.
• Drive AI adoption, AIOps, intelligent automation, and agentic AI initiatives. • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations; define clear growth paths for individual contributors.
• Drive hiring: partner with recruiting to define role requirements, lead interviews, and build a diverse, highperforming SRE team.
• Manage team workload, priorities, and on-call rotations to prevent burnout while maintaining operational excellence.
• Champion SRE best practices, including error budgets, SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, and blameless post-mortems, and instill a data-driven reliability culture

Infrastructure Strategy & Ownership
• Own the end-to-end reliability roadmap for a high-scale, real-time platform, including load balancers, data stores, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and networking layers.
• Define a

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