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Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.\n\nAs a remote-first and globally distributed team, we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.\n\nYour impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.\n\nHow we will deliver success together:\n\nAs the SRE Manager at Shippo, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that enable product teams to operate reliable, performant, and scalable services. You will establish frameworks for observability, deployment automation, and infrastructure management that allow product teams to own their service reliability. You will maintain a strong support oriented team while building automation and enabling engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization.\n\nShipping & handling responsibilities\n\nLead and develop a team of platform-focused SRE engineers, providing technical mentorship, career development, and performance management while fostering a culture of automation, self-service, and continuous improvement\n\nBuild and maintain internal platforms and tooling that enable product teams to deploy, monitor, and operate their services reliably\n\nManage observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards) that provide product teams visibility into their servicesOwn the infrastructure and Kubernetes platform that all Shippo services run on, ensuring it scales ahead of business needs through capacity planning and performance optimization\n\nEstablish frameworks and tooling for SLO/SLI definition, error budget tracking, and reliability measurement that product teams can adopt\n\nDesign and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release tooling that enable safe, frequent deployments\n\nBuild infrastructure-as-code foundations and self-service capabilities that allow product teams to provision and manage their infrastructure\n\nCreate automation to eliminate toil and prevent infrastructure problems before they impact product teams\n\nDrive infrastructure cost optimization initiatives through analysis, rightsizing recommendations, reserved capacity planning, and waste elimination across the cloud platform\n\nParticipate in leadership rotation for Sev1 incidents affecting services or the platform itself\n\nManage the SRE team’s on-call rotation\n\nDesign, implement, and test disaster recovery capabilities and ensure infrastructure security and compliance\n\nPartner with Engineering Managers and TPMs to understand product team needs, prioritize platform investments, and communicate platform roadmap and capabilities\n\nEstablish platform SLOs for infrastructure reliability, deployment success rates, build times, and other developer experience metrics\n\nYour shipping requirements\n\n3+ years of hands-on engineering management experience \n\n9+ years as a software or systems engineer with deep experience building platforms, tooling, or infrastructure\n\nBS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience\n\nExpert-level experience designing and operating platforms that enable other engineering teams (internal platform-as-a-product experience)\n\nStrong operational experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including experience building Kubernetes platforms for application teams\n\nDeep expertise with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP) including networking, compute, storage, and managed services\n\nExperience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux, etc.)\n\nStrong background in infrastructure-as-code tools and patterns (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc.)\n\nExperience designing and implementing observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)\n\nProficiency in at least one programming language for tooling and automation (Python, Go, or similar)\n\nExperience establishing reliability frameworks (SLO/SLI/error budgets) that other teams can adoptUnderstanding of developer experience and ability to build self-service tooling that reduces friction\n\nTrack record of designing disaster recovery solutions and implementing security and compliance best practices for infrastructure\n\nExceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with ability to influence product teams and engineering leadership\n\nDeep understanding of enabling product team success through platform capabilities\n\nWhat is in the Shippo Package? \n\nHealthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents). Pets coverage is also available!\n\nTake-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible working hours\n\nOne week-long company wide winter slow down \n\n3 Volunteer Days Off (VTOs)\n\nWFH stipend to set up your home office\n\nCharity donation match up to $100\n\nDedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth\n\nFun team in person time through our Shippos Everywhere program which includes regular team and company off-sites throughout the year as well as local Shippos gatherings\n\nCompensation\n\nOur Compensation Shippolicy:\n\nWe believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min is $175k to a max $238k annual salary (we tend to anchor our offers at the mid point $207k). Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.\n\nThe actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.\n\nSail through the process:\n\nHere at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at \n\nShippos in the wild:\n\nOur people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. 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