Engineering Manager, SRE

Sentry
Vienna
Full Time

Job Description

  • Full Time
  • Vienna

About the role
As the Engineering Manager of the Site Reliability team, you’ll lead an ensemble of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) ensuring resilience in Sentry’s products as it scales. The SRE team monitors production and owns the incident management process to keep critical systems highly available. They influence the engineering culture by promoting operational principles (i.e. SLOs) and infrastructure design principles that have been validated in production. Product engineering teams work closely with SREs to make sure they release quality products and features.

You’ll work closely with your team and collaborate with other engineering functions to build valuable features that contribute towards achieving our business goals. You’ll inspire and cultivate a strong team identity by conducting individualized mentoring and keeping everyone accountable for operational duties and project deliverables. You’ll be instrumental in evolving the remit of SRE to meet the needs of engineering as Sentry grows.

In this role you will:
Grow and develop a team of talented and motivated SREs
Set direction for the team, anticipating strategic and scaling-related challenges
Participate in quarterly planning sessions to help the team develop achievable milestones
Communicate deliverable outcomes to engineering, product, and design
Contribute to Sentry’s cloud strategy
Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies our values
Be part of the escalation path for our on-call, possibly being on-call when needed

You’ll love this job if you:
Enjoy mentoring and helping other engineers grow
Take challenges that you don’t see every day, daily
Like developing processes to help the team reduce toil
Get excited about converting learnings from incidents to actions that make engineering better
Enjoy working in a team of SREs who are passionate about constantly improving how we operate

Qualifications
5+ years of industry experience in software engineering
Ideally 2+ years of people management experience
Experience working with distributed systems in Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience with tools that manage systems including Terraform, Kubernetes, Salt, and Envoy
Good written and spoken English communication skills
Bonus points if you have experience working with globally distributed teams
Live in the Vienna, Austria area or are willing to relocate

Please note the following:Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
This is a full-time position

We are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 70,028,– gross per year for this position, in accordance with the respective collective agreement (IT-KV). The salary that Sentry offers you is adjusted to the current market situation and our starting point is EUR 100,000– gross per year.

A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.

Equal Opportunity at Sentry
Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io.

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