Senior Manager of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Manage, coach and support a team of SREs.  Help them grow their skills, confidence, and motivation that lead to their professional and personal success
• Working with stakeholders to develop the availability and reliability of DigitalOcean’s systems and microservices
• Facilitate DigitalOcean’s culture of learning by providing insight and recommendations for improvement
• Recruit, hire and develop world-class engineers 
• Coaching teams and individuals on reliability best practices and solutions
• Collaborating with engineering leadership to define the architectures and practices that should be adopted in order to deliver on our engineering and operational goals
• Providing technical leadership - best practices, testing, performance, reliability.
• Driving a high-performance culture within your team that iterates frequently and learns continuously without sacrificing product quality.
• Setting performance goals for team members; evaluating performance; providing coaching and facilitating professional development.

Requirements:

• Distinguished track record managing an SRE team (with experience implementing reliability, process, and scaling solutions)
• Demonstrated ability to lead positive change; empower people; cultivate product technology visions and innovative solutions.
• The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities.
• Clear communication skills (both written and verbal) to document processes and architectures
• Experience implementing disaster recovery best practices
• Developing robust solutions that facilitate streamlined resolution of customer incidents through use of technologies for automation, deflection, and issue management
• Advocate of effective development environments with the use of CI/CD tooling and configuration management technologies such as Chef or Ansible.