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We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.\nWith Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.\nWe encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.\nIf you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!\nWhat this job can offer you\nRemote's SRE team exists so that our engineers can move quickly and our customers get a product that stays up. The team owns Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, CI infrastructure, our observability stack and the reliability practices that sits on top of all of it.\nWe are looking for a Team Leader to run that team. This is a 60% IC, 40% leadership role. You will own the career development of your reports, steer the teams focus using judgment against the company goals, and you will be the spokesperson for the team across engineering. You will also stay close enough to the technical work to set direction with credibility and to know when something is going wrong before it is escalated to you.\nReliability practice at Remote is maturing rather than mature. Our SLO framework is live on its first few teams and needs to reach the rest, there is real work to do on how we balance operational load against project delivery. If you want a team where the foundations are in place and the interesting problems are still open, this is that team.\nWhat you bring\nPeople leadership\nYou have led an SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering team, and you have owned your reports' growth, performance and career progression rather than just their sprints.\nYou coach both craft and the soft skills, you can point to people who grew because of it.\nYou handle underperformance directly and early, with clarity and empathy.\nYou have hired engineers, and you can tell the difference between a good interview and a good engineer.\nYou read team dynamics well and you resolve conflict rather than routing around it.\nYou have a natural talent fostering commitment to the goals of the company.\nTechnical depth\nA hands-on background in site reliability, DevOps or cloud infrastructure engineering, deep enough that you can review your team's work, challenge a design and be taken seriously in an incident.\nKubernetes in production, including the operational reality of it rather than the happy path.\nAWS at meaningful scale.\nHands on AI building, enablement, scaling AI infrastructure.\nSolid o11y practices and principles,\nInfrastructure as code with Terraform.\nCI/CD systems such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.\nDocker and shell scripting.\nYou have run a reliability practice: incident response, on-call, SLOs and error budgets, and the discipline of turning incidents into changes that stick.\nUnderstanding and history of working in regulated environments.\nWays of working\nYou prioritise exceptionally well when operational load and project work compete, and you protect your team's focus without dropping the operational commitment.\nYou write clearly. Remote is fully distributed and async, so most of your leadership will happen in writing.\nYou build relationships across teams. A lot of SRE's value comes from being the team others bring problems to early.\nNice to have\nWorking knowledge of a backend language, ideally Elixir, or otherwise Java, Clojure, Node.js, Python or similar.\nDepth in modern observability: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and tools such as Honeycomb.\nDatabase operations experience, particularly PostgreSQL or Aurora performance, connection pool health and query tuning.\nRunning and configuring Linux systems outside a cloud environment.\nSecurity capability from both a defensive and an offensive standpoint.\nCloud cost management and FinOps.\nExperience growing a team from a small base, including building the hiring bar as you go.\nKey Responsibilities\nYour people\nThe full career lifecycle of your reports: onboarding, feedback, performance assessment, progression and hiring.\nTeam health, dynamics and the retrospective habit that keeps them honest.\nBeing the team's spokesperson to the rest of engineering and to senior leadership.\nDelivery\nThe SRE goals: what the team commits to, in what order, and why.\nThe support rotation and on-call model.\nThe platform\nRemote's core infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS and TLS, CI infrastructure.\nThe reliability practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response and the observability stack.\nThe partnership with our Security team on threats, patching and infrastructure controls, including our audit and compliance obligations.\nThe vendor relationships that sit behind the platform, including renewals and commercial conversations with support from your Director.\nPracticals\nYou will report to: Director of Engineering, Platform\nTeam: Site Reliability Engineering, part of Platform Engineering\nDirect reports: 4\nLocation: Anywhere in the world. Our current coverage is strongest in EMEA and APAC, so candidates who overlap with either, or who can help us close the Americas gap, are especially welcome.\nStart date: As soon as possible\nApplication process\nInterview with recruiter\nInterview with hiring manager\nScenario interview with a peer team leader\nExecutive interview\nBar Raiser interview\nOffer + Prior employment verification check\nRemote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equitypay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.\nAt first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.\nOur salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.\nAt Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.\nThe annual salary range for this full-time position is\n$75,450—$169,700 USD\nBenefits\nOur full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:\nwork from anywhere\nflexible paid time off\nflexible working hours (we are async)\n16 weeks paid parental leave\nbudget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)\nmental health support services\nstock options\nhome office budget & IT equipment\nHow you’ll plan your day (and life)\nWe work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.\nYou will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.\nIf that sounds like something you want, apply now!\nHow to apply\nPlease fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.\n We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.\nIf you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.\nNot only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.\nWe will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.\nAt Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. 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