Talener
• 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, automation, and production operations.
• Deep AWS expertise including ECS, EC2, Auto Scaling, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and multi-account cloud environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar programmatic frameworks.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Bitbucket Pipelines, or equivalent technologies.
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, incident response, logging, alerting, and SLO-driven engineering practices.
• Cloud security experience including IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and security best practices.
• Experience supporting highly available, real-time production platforms at scale.
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies.
• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the company's AWS-based platform.
• Drive infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture, deployment automation, and platform modernization efforts.
• Lead incident response, operational excellence initiatives, and continuous improvement of production systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and executive leadership teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help establish best practices across reliability engineering and platform operations
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box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Required Technology and Skills: </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;"> </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Cloud Infrastructure roles. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, automation, and production operations. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Deep AWS expertise including ECS, EC2, Auto Scaling, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and multi-account cloud environments. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">OpenTofu</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">, or similar programmatic frameworks. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using AWS </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">CodePipeline</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">, </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">CodeBuild</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">, Bitbucket Pipelines, or equivalent technologies. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Expertise in observability, monitoring, incident response, logging, alerting, and SLO-driven engineering practices. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Cloud security experience including IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and security best practices. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Experience supporting highly available, real-time production </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">platforms at</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;"> scale. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies. </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Responsibilities: </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Serve as a player-coach, leading and mentoring a small team of highly skilled DevOps and SRE engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and operational execution. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the company's AWS-based platform. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Drive infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture, deployment automation, and platform modernization efforts. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Lead incident response, operational excellence initiatives, and continuous improvement of production systems. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and executive leadership teams. </span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Participate in on-call rotations and help establish best practices across reliability engineering and platform operations</span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Compensation:</span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;"> </span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• $200,000-$250,000 Base Salary </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Equity Package </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">• Comprehensive Benefits</span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Additional Information: This is a rare opportunity to join a fully remote, remote-first organization in a highly visible leadership role. The ideal candidate enjoys balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution and thrives in a player-coach environment where they can directly influence the reliability and future direction of a mission-critical cloud platform. </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">T</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">o apply, please contact Brian Samela</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">/bsamela@talener.com</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">.</span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;"> </span></div><div fr-original-style="line-height:116%;font-size:16px;" style="line-height: 116%; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Aptos;" style="font-family: Aptos; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;"> </span></div>”,”employmentType”:”FULL_TIME”,”hiringOrganization”:{“@type”:”Organization”,”name”:”Talener”},”jobLocation”:{“@type”:”Place”,”address”:{“@type”:”PostalAddress”,”streetAddress”:null,”addressLocality”:”San Francisco Bay Area”,”addressRegion”:”CA”,”postalCode”:null,”addressCountry”:null}},”title”:”Director of Site Reliability Engineering”,”url”:”https://talener.com/jobs/?cjobid=BS436943825&rpid=1711807&postid=ZlG5wnwk8rk”,”identifier”:{“@type”:”PropertyValue”,”name”:”Talener”,”value”:null}}