Director, Site Reliability Engineering

The role

You will lead a small SRE team and set the vision, operating model, and culture for SRE. You will own core infrastructure services to help engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate software.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team
• Define and roll out a Service Ownership & Maturity Framework
• Own and improve core engineering infrastructure services
• Help engineering teams become stronger owners and operators of their services
• Make reliability, operational maturity, infrastructure health, and developer productivity measurable
• Improve deployment automation, resilience, self-healing patterns, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability
• Mature incident response, escalation, postmortems, and on-call health
• Build paved paths and self-service infrastructure
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT
• Evaluate AI-assisted and agentic workflows

Required qualifications

• 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
• 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
• A pragmatic approach to tooling
• Ability to operate effectively in a small or mid-sized engineering organization
• Clear executive communication skills

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for employee and dependents
• Flexible time off
• 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
• Life & ADD (1x salary, up to $250K)
• Short & Long term disability
• Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents
• Family building benefits through Kindbody

About the company

Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a mission-driven non-profit organization focused on creating equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. The SDF supports the Stellar network and its ecosystem.