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Engineering Manager, SRE

Remote-EMEA

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. 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.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We 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.
 
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

Remote'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.

We 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.

Reliability 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.

What you bring

People leadership

  • You 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.
  • You coach both craft and the soft skills, you can point to people who grew because of it.
  • You handle underperformance directly and early, with clarity and empathy.
  • You have hired engineers, and you can tell the difference between a good interview and a good engineer.
  • You read team dynamics well and you resolve conflict rather than routing around it.
  • You have a natural talent fostering commitment to the goals of the company.

Technical depth

  • A 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.
  • Kubernetes in production, including the operational reality of it rather than the happy path.
  • AWS at meaningful scale.
  • Hands on AI building, enablement, scaling AI infrastructure.
  • Solid o11y practices and principles,
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
  • CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
  • Docker and shell scripting.
  • You have run a reliability practice: incident response, on-call, SLOs and error budgets, and the discipline of turning incidents into changes that stick.
  • Understanding and history of working in regulated environments.

Ways of working

  • You prioritise exceptionally well when operational load and project work compete, and you protect your team's focus without dropping the operational commitment.
  • You write clearly. Remote is fully distributed and async, so most of your leadership will happen in writing.
  • You build relationships across teams. A lot of SRE's value comes from being the team others bring problems to early.

Nice to have

  • Working knowledge of a backend language, ideally Elixir, or otherwise Java, Clojure, Node.js, Python or similar.
  • Depth in modern observability: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and tools such as Honeycomb.
  • Database operations experience, particularly PostgreSQL or Aurora performance, connection pool health and query tuning.
  • Running and configuring Linux systems outside a cloud environment.
  • Security capability from both a defensive and an offensive standpoint.
  • Cloud cost management and FinOps.
  • Experience growing a team from a small base, including building the hiring bar as you go.

Key Responsibilities

Your people

  • The full career lifecycle of your reports: onboarding, feedback, performance assessment, progression and hiring.
  • Team health, dynamics and the retrospective habit that keeps them honest.
  • Being the team's spokesperson to the rest of engineering and to senior leadership.

Delivery

  • The SRE goals: what the team commits to, in what order, and why.
  • The support rotation and on-call model.

The platform

  • Remote's core infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS and TLS, CI infrastructure.
  • The reliability practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response and the observability stack.
  • The partnership with our Security team on threats, patching and infrastructure controls, including our audit and compliance obligations.
  • The vendor relationships that sit behind the platform, including renewals and commercial conversations with support from your Director.

Practicals

  • You will report to: Director of Engineering, Platform
  • Team: Site Reliability Engineering, part of Platform Engineering
  • Direct reports: 4
  • Location: 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.
  • Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

  1. Interview with recruiter
  2. Interview with hiring manager
  3. Scenario interview with a peer team leader
  4. Executive interview
  5. Bar Raiser interview
  6. Offer + Prior employment verification check

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Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay 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.

At 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.

Our 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.

At 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.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$75,450 - $169,700 USD

Benefits

Our 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:
  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • home office budget & IT equipment

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You 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.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If 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.

Not 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.

We 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.

At 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. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

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  • Remote Europe Holding, B.V., a company registered in the Netherlands under number 7403597, at Kraijenhoffstraat 137A, 1018RG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and
  • Remote Technology Services, Inc., a company registered in the United States of America under number 7988145 at 2261 Market St STE 86540 San Francisco, CA 94114;

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Your personal data will be stored with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the USA and engaged by the Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on the Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located in the EU, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this website. Greenhouse Software, Inc. is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework program**.**

We'll review your public LinkedIn profile, and this may influence our decision to proceed with your application.

If your application is successful, the Controller will make an offer for employment which may be conditional on you passing a few additional checks, such as an ID verification check and employment history check. We conduct these checks via Veremark Ltd (United Kingdom) and Persona Identities, Inc. (USA). You will receive an additional notice if and when the Controller requires these checks.

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We collect the following categories of personal information:

  • Personal identifiers: Such as your name, email address, phone number, Linkedin profile, country and city, IP address.
  • Professional or Employment-Related Information: Such as your resume/CV, cover letter, work history, professional references, information about skills and abilities, accomplishments and awards, training and development information, performance evaluation information, previous employment information and employment termination information.
  • Work eligibility information: Such as work eligibility status, existence of a non-compete.
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  • Education Information: Such as degrees, diplomas, certifications, and educational background.
  • Geolocation information: Such as IP addresses from which we can determine your general location.

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  • Protected characteristics: Such as sex, pronouns, disability status, race, gender identity through voluntary self-disclosure.
  • Physical or Biological information: If we use video interviewing tools, we may process your audio and visual information.
  • Precise geolocation: Derived from your IP address (if precise)

Remote does not sell or share any of the categories of personal information listed above.

Purposes for Collection and Use

The information above is collected and used for the following purposes:

  • Recruiting and Hiring: To evaluate your qualifications for the position for which you applied and to communicate with you throughout the application process.
  • Inclusive Hiring: To ensure our hiring process is inclusive, complies with applicable law and regulations, and that people of all backgrounds are represented in our talent pool.
  • Verification: To verify your candidacy information, identity and legal right to work in respective country. Employment verification involves contacting past employers and may also include contacting listed references.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable law and regulations including state and federal laws, such as equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.
  • Security: To prevent and detect fraud and investigate security incidents.

Selling or Sharing of Personal Information

Remote does not "sell" or "share" (as those terms are defined by the CCPA) the personal information of job applicants to third parties. We only disclose specific pieces of information to service providers (e.g. Greenhouse) for the specific business purposes described above.

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We retain all categories of personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the recruiting and hiring purpose for which it was collected but in any event for no longer than a year, or as required by applicable law.

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For more details on your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act—including your Right to Know, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct—please visit our CCPA/CPRA Privacy Policy.

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In some instances, not only Remote may control the collection of your personal information as job applicant. For certain parts of the application process, the following third parties may control the collection of your data:

Successful Application Checks: If your application is successful, Remote will make an offer for employment which may be conditional on you passing additional checks.

ID and Employment Verification: These checks, including ID verification and employment history, are conducted via Veremark Ltd (United Kingdom) and Persona Identities, Inc. (USA).

Direct Collection: These third parties may control the collection of personal information directly from you to perform these specific verification services.

Additional Notice: You will receive an additional notice (Notice at collection) from the these third parties if and when Remote requires these specific checks.

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Remote is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and as such it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.Through the below self-identification survey, we invite you to share your demographic information.

This information will be used to ensure that our hiring process is inclusive and that people of all backgrounds are represented in our talent pool.

All answers are anonymous and will not be tied to your job application or candidate profile.
The data will be aggregated and only used internally to inform our hiring strategies and processes to ensure we are actively working toward creating access to opportunities among under-represented groups and increasing our teams’ diversity. 

The access to the collected data is limited on a need-to-know basis.
These questions are optional and voluntary, and will not have any impact on hiring outcomes.

Visit the Remote Handbook to read more about how diversity, equity, and inclusion are a way of life at Remote.

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