management
Posted 5 days agoDirector of Site Reliability Engineering
at Stellar3
New York, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Build paved paths and self-service infrastructure that reduce toil, lower cognitive load, and help engineering teams move faster while strengthening ownership and reliability.
Requirements
- Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today.
- You will be successful here if you bring strong technical judgment, pragmatic leadership, and the ability to influence through trust, clarity, and execution.
- - Own and improve core engineering infrastructure services, including cloud foundations, Kubernetes and compute patterns, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure automation.
- - Pragmatically evaluate AI-assisted and agentic workflows where they can improve infrastructure operations, service ownership, developer workflows, or toil reduction.
- experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, production operations, or closely related engineering roles. - 5+ years of
- experience leading, managing, or formally developing infrastructure, SRE, platform, or reliability engineers. - Strong
- experience with modern cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or similar environments. - 3+ years of
- experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, declarative systems, CI/CD, and deployment safety. - Strong
- experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems, and on-call practices. -
- Experience helping product or application engineering teams improve service ownership, operational readiness, and production accountability.
- - The ability to operate effectively in a small or mid-sized engineering organization where influence comes from credibility, judgment, and outcomes rather than bureaucracy.
- Experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform work in a lean, high-agency organization. -
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams or 24/7 operational coverage. -