Want Engineering Manager, SRE Team - (Remote - US) in Atlanta, GA
Job title: Engineering Manager, SRE Team - (Remote - US)
Company: Mediavine
Job description: Mediavine is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to help lead and grow our SRE/Operations team. We provide our engineering teams with infrastructure and solutions architecture support using AWS cloud services, infrastructure as code, and automation tools. Applicants must be based in the United States.
About Mediavine
Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 7,500 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.
Mission & Culture
We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is to ensure your brand and business grow in every respect.
We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcome. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.
Diversity and inclusion aren't platitudes to us; we take them seriously. Have a read through our to learn more about our values and to discover if Mediavine is the place for you!
Position Title & Overview:
As an SRE Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of skilled Site Reliability Engineers to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure and applications. You will play a critical role in driving the development and implementation of best practices, guiding the team in optimizing our systems, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. This role requires technical expertise, leadership abilities, and strong communication skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of Site Reliability Engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and career development opportunities
- Define and drive the strategic vision for the SRE team, aligning it with the company's goals and objectives
- Collaborate with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to establish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) for critical systems
- Establish and enforce best practices for building and operating highly available and scalable systems
- Oversee incident management processes, including incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Drive the implementation and enhancement of observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve performance and availability issues
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, improve deployment processes, and ensure efficient resource utilization
- Lead capacity planning efforts to support business growth and anticipated traffic demands
- Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and knowledge sharing within the SRE team and across the organization
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact and relevance to the company's infrastructure and operations
- Applicants must be based in the United States
- 7+ years of experience maintaining scalable, complex, large-scale, customer facing web services
- 3+ years of experience leading technical/engineering talent
- Proven experience managing and leading a team of Site Reliability Engineers or similar roles
- Deep understanding of cloud technologies and experience with AWS
- Strong knowledge of software development principles and experience with programming or scripting languages
- Expertise in designing and operating large-scale, highly available, and distributed systems
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
- Proficiency in implementing infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools
- Solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and logging tools and best practices
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on root cause analysis and continuous improvement
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
- Availability for occasional on-call responsibilities and off-hours incident management
- Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices
- Experience working on a distributed/remote team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced certifications in cloud technologies (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer)
- Experience with Terraform
- Previous experience in a high-traffic, customer-facing web service environment
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and related patterns
- Experience with incident management tools (e.g., PagerDuty, VictorOps)
- Demonstrated track record of driving technical initiatives and process improvements
- Strong leadership and team-building skills, with a focus on fostering a positive and inclusive work environment
- Remote work environment
- Travel opportunities (remember those!?)
- Comprehensive benefits including 401k, Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Learning allowance
- Generous Vacation/Time off policies
- Additional side benefits such as home-office upgrades, tuition reimbursement, paid gym memberships and wellness retreats, upgraded flights, cool swag and more
- Company match charitable donations