US, Canada, Europe Remote (Global)

AuthZed is hiring an Engineering Manager: SRE

Requirements

  • Over a decade of professional experience in infrastructure, site reliability, or platform engineering roles.
  • At least five years leading teams or serving in technical leadership roles within SRE or platform engineering.
  • Proven track record managing distributed teams across multiple regions including the US, Canada, EU, and other global time zones.
  • Direct experience guiding or mentoring teams in SRE, infrastructure, or platform functions within production SaaS environments.
  • Demonstrated leadership ability with a focus on coaching and developing senior-level engineering talent.
  • Deep understanding of core SRE principles including service level objectives, service level indicators, error budgets, incident response, capacity planning, and operational best practices.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, particularly managed services.
  • Strong coding background with production-level software development in languages like Go, Python, or Bash for automation and tooling.
  • Practical experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, custom operators or controllers, containerized applications, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Familiarity with observability ecosystems including monitoring with Prometheus, visualization with Grafana, and logging and distributed tracing pipelines.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate reliability tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders and produce clear incident reports and postmortems.
  • History of identifying operational challenges and converting them into actionable engineering initiatives.

Nice to Have

  • Experience integrating or working with AI-driven systems or intelligent tooling.
  • Background operating systems that support multi-tenant architectures or require strong customer isolation.
  • Knowledge of distributed databases and optimizing performance at large scale.
  • Experience designing or building internal developer platforms or standardized development pathways.

Benefits

  • Engage with innovative technologies in a high-growth industry.
  • Work in a supportive culture where contributions directly influence outcomes.
  • Salary commensurate with experience and market standards.
  • Equity compensation through stock options at an early-stage startup.
  • Full benefits package including health insurance for US employees and additional coverage options.
  • Fully remote role with flexible scheduling to support global work patterns.
  • Biannual in-person gatherings focused on team connection, collaboration, and shared experiences.

Compensation

Competitive salary based on experience

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Team

Global team of Site Reliability Engineers

Other

Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

Required Skills
InfrastructureAWSGCPKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeMonitoring
About company
AuthZed
We are the creators and maintainers of SpiceDB and the authorization infrastructure that companies around the world depend on. We are a Series A company, fixing broken access control with products that eliminate complex permission management while delivering enterprise-scale performance and consistent access control.
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Job Details
Category management
Posted 5 months ago