Manager, Cloud Reliability Engineering (United States)

Do you want to empower organizations to fairly and equitably hire, promote, retain and compensate their employees? Syndio is a Series-C technology company committed to fairness in the workplace. Fueled by investments of $83M from Bessemer Ventures, Voyager Capital and social change organization Emerson Collective, Syndio is investing in growing our team and products.

This is a critical moment when organizations are looking for ways to take tangible action to fight gender and racial bias, and we believe creating diverse and inclusive workplaces for all starts with workplace equity.

About the role

#ubiquitous intro

This role will report to the Director, Platform Engineering with ownership of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering (PE), and Cloud Operations Engineering (COE) functions. In this role, you will help to define and drive a vision for the organization and align it with the broader engineering and business goals. You’ll develop and execute on Service Level Objectives (SLOs), capacity management and planning, and cost optimization. You’ll have clear line of sight into the overall health of our SDLC pipelines and the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. Lastly, you’ll develop and maintain our Internal Development Platform (IDP) and related tooling, relentlessly focused on making the software development process quick and painless for our engineers. Kindly note, this is a remote role based within one of our talent hubs: NYC Tri-State, Greater Seattle, or San Francisco Bay Area. 

#the gist

We are looking for someone who is passionate about SRE practices, understands the importance of platform engineering and overall developer experience, and values the operational needs of a distributed SaaS-based platform that caters to the largest enterprises in the world. As a startup in a fast-paced high growth environment, we are looking for a leader that is flexible and can grow outside the traditional expectation of an engineering leader. You’ll be exposed to, develop skills in, and be responsible for work that will span a wide-range of engineering disciplines and leadership functions.

#not awkward- just real
Before we get started, let’s be specific here with minimum skill sets. This is a first-line manager leadership position. We use Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform almost exclusively in a 100% cloud-based environment. You are a leader who is comfortable in your knowledge of these technologies and has relevant experience managing SaaS-based applications in an SRE, PE, Cloud Operations, or similar role.   Why this …