# Director of Site Reliability Engineering

**Company:** [Stellar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stellar)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $210k – $310k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** SRE, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Slos/Slis, Incident Response, Postmortems, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure Automation, Secrets Management
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Lead and develop a distributed SRE team, setting vision and operating model for reliability practices. Own core infrastructure services (Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability) and drive service ownership frameworks across engineering teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team, setting vision, charter, operating model, priorities, and success measures
- Define and roll out a Service Ownership & Maturity Framework across engineering
- Own and improve core engineering infrastructure services including cloud foundations, Kubernetes and compute patterns, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure automation
- Help engineering teams improve service ownership through standards, dashboards, runbooks, alerting, escalation paths, operational readiness, and deployment practices
- Make reliability, operational maturity, infrastructure health, and developer productivity measurable through metrics and operational intelligence
- Improve deployment automation, resilience, self-healing patterns, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability
- Mature incident response, escalation, postmortems, and on-call health across a geographically distributed team
- Build paved paths and self-service infrastructure that reduce toil and lower cognitive load
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT on infrastructure, access management, cloud operations, and controls
- Evaluate AI-assisted and agentic workflows for infrastructure operations, service ownership, developer workflows, or toil reduction

## Requirements
- 10+ years of 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 defining team charters, operating models, roadmaps, success measures, and engineering practices for infrastructure or reliability teams
- Deep technical judgment across cloud infrastructure, production operations, distributed systems, reliability tradeoffs, automation, and operational risk
- 3+ years of 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
- Pragmatic approach to tooling decisions (build vs. buy vs. adapt vs. simplify vs. retire)
- Ability to operate effectively in a small or mid-sized engineering organization
- Clear executive communication skills and ability to partner directly with a CTO and senior engineering leaders

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform work in a lean, high-agency organization
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams or 24/7 operational coverage
- Experience improving developer productivity through paved paths, self-service infrastructure, automation, and reduced toil
- Experience with infrastructure security fundamentals, secrets management, access controls, cloud security practices, or compliance-related infrastructure controls
- Experience in financial services, regulated environments, blockchain, crypto, Web3, or other high-reliability technical ecosystems
- Experience evaluating vendors and infrastructure platforms with skepticism, technical rigor, and cost discipline
- Practical experience applying AI-assisted or agentic workflows to infrastructure, reliability, operations, observability, or developer productivity

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary range: $210,000 - $310,000
- Lumen-denominated grants
- Competitive health, dental & vision coverage (most plans 100% covered for employee + dependents)
- Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including company-wide holiday break
- Generous paid parental leave + paid pregnancy disability leave
- Gym reimbursement ($80/month)
- Life & ADD (up to $50K), Short & Long term disability
- 401K with 4% match
- Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
- Commuter benefits ($250/month employer contribution)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
- L&D budget of $1,500/year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats

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