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# Director, Site Reliability Engineering

- **Company:** Stellar Development Foundation
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $205,000.0 - $305,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Open Source Technology, Reliability Engineering, Blockchain, Data Logging, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Web3.js
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/director-site-reliability-engineering-san-francisco-ca--d5fa4145-dd66-4b05-835a-0d35dd43dd62

## About the Role

Reliability Engineering, Global Financial Markets, Financial Systems, Blockchain, Ecosystems, Open Source, Leading Edge Technology, Reliability Engineering, Leadership, Machine Tool, * 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.
 * A pragmatic approach to tooling: you understand when to build, buy, adapt, simplify, or retire systems based on the actual engineering problem.
 * The ability to operate effectively in a small or mid-sized engineering organization where influence comes from credibility, judgment, and outcomes rather than bureaucracy.
 * Clear executive communication skills and the ability to partner directly with a CTO and senior engineering leaders.

Bonus Points if:

 * 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.

## Description

* Lead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team, setting a clear vision, charter, operating model, priorities, and success measures.
 * Define and roll out a Service Ownership & Maturity Framework across engineering, with expectations that vary appropriately by service criticality.
 * 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 become stronger owners and operators of their services through better standards, dashboards, runbooks, alerting, escalation paths, operational readiness, and deployment practices.
 * Make reliability, operational maturity, infrastructure health, and developer productivity more measurable through trusted metrics and practical operational intelligence.
 * Improve deployment automation, resilience, self-healing patterns, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability based on actual impact and risk.
 * Mature incident response, escalation, postmortems, and on-call health across a geographically distributed team.
 * Build paved paths and self-service infrastructure that reduce toil, lower cognitive load, and help engineering teams move faster while strengthening ownership and reliability.
 * Partner closely with Security, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT where infrastructure, access management, cloud operations, vendor review, or controls intersect with engineering.
 * Pragmatically evaluate AI-assisted and agentic workflows where they can improve infrastructure operations, service ownership, developer workflows, or toil reduction.