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Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.\nSDF is looking for a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a small, high-leverage SRE team and help shape how engineering teams own, operate, and improve production services.\nThis is a senior engineering leadership role reporting to the CTO. You will set the vision, operating model, and culture for SRE while owning the core infrastructure services that help SDF engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate software with confidence.\nEngineering teams at SDF own the services they build. SRE provides the frameworks, standards, shared infrastructure, tooling, observability practices, and enablement model that make strong service ownership possible across engineering.\nYou will be successful here if you bring strong technical judgment, pragmatic leadership, and the ability to influence through trust, clarity, and execution. SDF is a small, mission-driven foundation with a broad technical surface area, so this role requires leverage, ownership, and a bias toward solving the right problems over creating processes for its own sake.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team, setting a clear vision, charter, operating model, priorities, and success measures.\n\nDefine and roll out a Service Ownership & Maturity Framework across engineering, with expectations that vary appropriately by service criticality.\n\nOwn and improve core engineering infrastructure services, including cloud foundations, Kubernetes and compute patterns, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure automation.\n\nHelp engineering teams become stronger owners and operators of their services through better standards, dashboards, runbooks, alerting, escalation paths, operational readiness, and deployment practices.\n\nMake reliability, operational maturity, infrastructure health, and developer productivity more measurable through trusted metrics and practical operational intelligence.\n\nImprove deployment automation, resilience, self-healing patterns, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability based on actual impact and risk.\n\nMature incident response, escalation, postmortems, and on-call health across a geographically distributed team.\n\nBuild paved paths and self-service infrastructure that reduce toil, lower cognitive load, and help engineering teams move faster while strengthening ownership and reliability.\n\nPartner closely with Security, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT where infrastructure, access management, cloud operations, vendor review, or controls intersect with engineering.\n\nPragmatically evaluate AI-assisted and agentic workflows where they can improve infrastructure operations, service ownership, developer workflows, or toil reduction.\n\nYou have:\n10+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, production operations, or closely related engineering roles.\n\n5+ years of experience leading, managing, or formally developing infrastructure, SRE, platform, or reliability engineers.\n\nStrong experience defining team charters, operating models, roadmaps, success measures, and engineering practices for infrastructure or reliability teams.\n\nDeep technical judgment across cloud infrastructure, production operations, distributed systems, reliability tradeoffs, automation, and operational risk.\n\n3+ years of experience with modern cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or similar environments.\n\n3+ years of experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, declarative systems, CI/CD, and deployment safety.\n\nStrong experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems, and on-call practices.\n\nExperience helping product or application engineering teams improve service ownership, operational readiness, and production accountability.\n\nA pragmatic approach to tooling: you understand when to build, buy, adapt, simplify, or retire systems based on the actual engineering problem.\n\nThe ability to operate effectively in a small or mid-sized engineering organization where influence comes from credibility, judgment, and outcomes rather than bureaucracy.\n\nClear executive communication skills and the ability to partner directly with a CTO and senior engineering leaders.\n\nBonus Points if:\nExperience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform work in a lean, high-agency organization.\n\nExperience supporting globally distributed teams or 24/7 operational coverage.\n\nExperience improving developer productivity through paved paths, self-service infrastructure, automation, and reduced toil.\n\nExperience with infrastructure security fundamentals, secrets management, access controls, cloud security practices, or compliance-related infrastructure controls.\n\nExperience in financial services, regulated environments, blockchain, crypto, Web3, or other high-reliability technical ecosystems.\n\nExperience evaluating vendors and infrastructure platforms with skepticism, technical rigor, and cost discipline.\n\nPractical experience applying AI-assisted or agentic workflows to infrastructure, reliability, operations, observability, or developer productivity.\n\nWe offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $205,000 - $305,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:\nUSA Benefits/Perks:\nCompetitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents\n\nFlexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break\n\n401(k) with 4% match\n\nCommuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution\n\nHealth & Dependent Care FSA Accounts\n\nHealth Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution\n\nGym reimbursement ($80 per month)\n\nLife & ADD (1x salary, up to $250K)\n\nShort & Long term disability\n\nGenerous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents\n\nFamily building benefits through Kindbody\n\nWellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)\n\nL&D budget of $1,500/year\n\nDaily lunch and snacks in office\n\nCompany retreats\n\nAbout Stellar\nStellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network made for financial products and services and a thriving and passionate ecosystem that includes a non-profit organization driven by a mission, Stellar is paving the path to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology. Built with speed and low costs in mind, the Stellar network provides builders and financial institutions worldwide a platform to issue assets, and to send and convert currencies in real time creating real world utility. Founded in 2014, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) supports the continued development and growth of the Stellar network and also serves the ecosystem of NGOs, corporations, universities, small businesses, governments, and solo entrepreneurs building on the Stellar network through tooling, funding and strategic collaborations. Together, Stellar is where blockchain meets the real world.\nAbout the Stellar Development Foundation\nThe Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting change-makers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations. SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility. As a nonprofit foundation, SDF puts the health of the Stellar network and the Stellar ecosystem and its mission above all else.\nWe look forward to hearing from you!\nPrivacy Policy\nBy submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.\nSDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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