AuthZed · 1 day ago
Engineering Manager: SRE
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$150K/yr - $200K/yr
10+ years expAuthZed is pioneering open-source authorization solutions for scaling businesses. As an SRE Manager, you will lead a team responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the company's infrastructure while engaging in production systems and incident response.
Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Lead a global team of Site Reliability Engineers delivering infrastructure automation, observability, and operational scalability across multi-cloud and multi-region kubernetes based architectures
Recruit, hire, onboard and develop engineers while elevating the overall strength of the team
Act as a player coach by contributing to critical projects while mentoring engineers and supporting their professional growth
Participate in on-call rotations at a sustainable level to stay grounded in real operational issues
Guide project planning by defining milestones, identifying dependencies, and working toward timely and meaningful delivery
Identify toil and lead initiatives to eliminate it through engineering solutions
Drive automation and platform engineering: safer deploys, progressive delivery, guardrails, and paved paths that reduce toil
Collaborate with product and engineering to ship features like self-service workflows and infra-as-code expectations with reliability baked in
Serve as a senior escalation point for complex incident triage and root cause analysis
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering roles
5+ years of team management or technical leadership in SRE or Platform Engineering
Experience managing distributed teams across US, Canada, EU, and global time zones
Experience leading or mentoring SRE/Infrastructure/Platform teams in a production SaaS environment
Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach senior-level engineers
Strong grasp of SRE fundamentals: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning, and operational excellence
Extensive experience with AWS, GCP and Azure managed services
Strong programming skills and experience writing production-quality automation or tooling (e.g., Go, Python, Bash)
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operators/Controllers, containerized workloads, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
Experience with monitoring and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, logging/tracing pipelines)
Excellent communication: can translate reliability tradeoffs to product/exec stakeholders and write crisp incident/postmortem artifacts
Proven ability to translate operational pain points into engineering deliverables
Preferred
Experience working with or integrating AI-powered systems or tooling
Experience operating multi-tenant or high-isolation customer environments
Familiarity with distributed databases and performance tuning at scale
Experience building internal developer platforms or paved paths
Benefits
Stock options at an early-stage startup.
Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance.
A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones
Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!
Company
AuthZed
AuthZed is a permissions systems provider that helps organizations build fast, secure, and scalable authorization services for applications.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$15.9MKey Investors
General CatalystWork-Bench
2024-06-27Series A· $12M
2021-04-21Seed· $3.9M
Leadership Team
Jake Moshenko
Co-Founder & CEO
Jimmy Zelinskie
Co-Founder
Recent News
2025-08-22
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