Manager, Production Engineering
Leads the founding Tel Aviv Production Engineering team, combining people management with hands-on reliability engineering, incident response, automation, and firmware optimization. Requires 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering and 2+ years of direct engineering leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Recruit, mentor, and establish a high-performing Production Engineering team in Tel Aviv.
- Partner with US and Dublin teams to run a follow-the-sun global on-call rotation.
- Champion blameless post-mortems focused on systemic failures.
- Drive alert-reduction initiatives and improve fleet signal-to-noise ratios.
- Automate manual workflows using runbook automation such as Temporal.
- Build predictive monitoring to identify SEV1/SEV2 events before customer impact.
- Govern Production Readiness Reviews and change control across compute, storage, networking, and platform teams.
- Ensure at least 30% of team bandwidth is dedicated to strategic automation, tooling, and firmware optimization.
- Convert recurring physical interventions into software-defined auto-remediation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering environments.
- 2+ years of direct leadership experience with first-line engineering teams in a high-growth neocloud, hyperscaler, or large-scale distributed environment.
- Hands-on software engineering proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or a comparable systems language.
- Expert knowledge of Linux internals, container orchestration at scale, and root-cause analysis across physical-to-virtual boundaries.
- Experience running tiered on-call models and establishing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Proven ability to reduce paging fatigue.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience at a neocloud or AI infrastructure company operating large GPU clusters.
- Exposure to InfiniBand, RoCEv2, BMC, firmware qualification, or attestation.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA or AMD accelerator failure modes and DCGM counters.
- Experience managing major scaling milestones and systems designed for 10x fleet expansions.
Benefits
- Benefits package supporting financial security, health, and well-being.
- Pension contributions and additional perks aligned with local market standards.
Skills
Go, Python, C++, Linux, Container Orchestration, Temporal, On-Call Operations, Slis, SLOs, Error Budgets, InfiniBand, Rocev2, Bmc, Firmware, Dcgm
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