SRE Manager

Job Description

Hi, I'm Terance, Director of Platform Experience at Customer.io . I'm looking for a SRE Manager to join our growing Engineering Management team.

At Customer.io , Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) are the folks that help keep our production systems running and secure. As the SRE Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that the team meets this mandate. You will do this by providing structure and direction to a talented team of SREs through people management, career guidance, and overall project management.

Our small, remote-first team is fun-loving, passionate, and highly effective. We have an experienced group of engineers, strong technical leads, a proven architecture, and a track record of delivering major improvements with stability. Members of our site reliability team have backgrounds in a wide variety of industries, from Telecom to Gaming, and we believe that embracing our unique perspectives and expertise is key to our success as a collaborative team.

As the SRE Manager at Customer.io , you will...

• Ensure that core infrastructure pieces are designed, built, and maintained to allow scaling of Customer.io and support real-time processing and delivery of billions of messages
• Plan the growth of Customer.io ’s infrastructure
• Use data to make informed decisions about priorities, and to measure the cost of problems and the impact of solutions
• Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible
• Ensure monitoring and alerting trigger on symptoms, in advance of outages
• Be on the escalation path of our on-call rotation to respond to Customer.io availability incidents and provide assistance for our customers team
• Mentor, nurture, and grow a team of SREs
• Champion our culture. We strive to be inclusive, cooperative, and empathetic
• Recruit and hire new team members, with an emphasis on increasing our diversity
• Work directly within your squad to create accountability for delivery timelines, promote healthy work culture, and ensure system reliability and uptime

We're looking for someone who has...

• Experience as an SRE Manager in the SaaS industry
• Genuine excitement about managing and developing people. While you started as an Engineer or SRE, you've committed to management as your career path
• Experience in driving key SRE initiatives through to completion while balancing operational priorities and cost
• Deep knowledge of SRE best practices in areas not limited to infrastructure repeatability, security, change management and observability
• Experience in managing and working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL
• A solid understanding of problems of scalability and experience deploying and managing distributed applications on cloud infrastructure
• Deep knowledge of UNIX environments and ability to apply modern collaborative development practices
• Strong technical foundation in database technologies, distributed systems, and scaling solutions
• Ideally, you've had an opportunity to manage your reports remotely, but this is not a requirement
• Located in North America hours (UTC -4 to -7)

About Customer.io

Our mission at Customer.io is to power automated communication that people like to receive. Today over 4,300 internet businesses use Customer.io to manage, send, and track performance of email, SMS, and push notifications. Unlike typical marketing platforms, Customer.io helps businesses increase relevance by using behavioral data: what people do or don’t do when logged in to a web or mobile app.

We are offering a starting salary of $150k - $175k USD depending on experience and subject to market rate adjustment.

Benefits at Customer.io include:

• Unlimited PTO - we encourage 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
• 100% medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave - for birth, adoption, or foster care
• 401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar for dollar match to retirement contributions
• Health and wellness allowance - Up to $200 USD per month that can be used for your healthy living needs, including gym membership, acupuncture, massage, or bike repairs
• Home office stipend - Up to $2,000 USD to help you get your home office set up so you can do your best work
• Internet + cell phone reimbursement - Up to $200 USD per month for your internet and cell phone plans
• Co-working space reimbursement - Up to $300 USD per month for those times you'd prefer to work in a co-working environment
• Learning + development - Up to $2,000 USD reimbursement per year to use on conferences, books, classes, or workshops - anything that will help you develop your skills
• 1 month paid sabbatical after four years at Customer.io - to treat yourself to a vacation, or spend however you choose
• 1 annual company retreat per year and opportunities to meet in smaller groups throughout the year
• Flexible schedule, work anywhere you want! - as long as you have a reliable internet connection and some overlapping work time with your manager, you can work where and when you want

All final candidates will be asked to complete an employment and education verification authorization form (which allows us to verify your job history and education listed on your resume) as part of our pre-employment process.

Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. We strive to build an inclusive team culture, implement bias-free hiring practices, and develop community partnerships to expand our global impact.

Join us!

Check out our careers page for more information about why you should come work with us! We are passionate about our core values of Empathy, Transparency, Responsibility, and Awkwardness and are looking for new coworkers to share and build that passion!

How to apply

Apply at the link below and tell us why you're interested in the position! ****We plan to respond to all applicants with a status update about your application by November 15.

Here's what you can expect from our hiring process:

1. 30-45 minute video call with Terance, our Director of Platform Experience
2. 45 minute video call with members of our SRE team reviewing a scaling exercise
3. SRE Manager Project review video call with Terance
4. Final Interview