\nRole Description\nGivebutter is hiring a New York City-based Site Reliability Team Lead to oversee the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. As a Lead SRE, you will be directly responsible for delivering world-class infrastructure to our users, maturing our operational practices, and leading a team of skilled engineers. You will report directly to our CTO and carry out our infrastructure vision while creating a scalable engineering culture that breeds innovation. You will ensure we are delivering excellent user experiences in a timely manner and retain top-notch security, design, and performance. You will cultivate a culture of high performance by creating systems that eliminate roadblocks, processes that incentivize excellence, and by being an expert in site reliability engineering. We have already built a great foundation, powering hundreds of millions of donations to over 10k+ organizations and you will take this impact much further.\n\n\nWhy join the Givebutter Engineering team?\nDemocracy of code - We are a group of engineers that values equal contribution as well as discussing architecture and ideas openly.\nNot overburdened with meetings - Our Engineers manage their own calendars and block times so they can work uninterrupted.\nAutomated ci/cd - Our builds are reproducible and the pipeline is easy to manage. Shipping to production is hands-off, automated, and consistent. Our engineers are focused on solving problems with code.\nMission-driven, full stop - We work with amazing organizations, non-profits, and charities doing good all over the world.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Manage and hire in-house SREs and contractor resources\n* Handle and prioritize incidents, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication.\n* Establish and manage key metrics for reliability; set up and maintain alerting systems.\n* Automate tasks and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and techniques.\n* Ensure application scalability and identify performance bottlenecks to optimize system performance.\n* Design and implement fault-tolerant and highly available systems to minimize downtime.\n* Develop, implement, and regularly test disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.\n* Conduct capacity planning to anticipate and manage future infrastructure needs.\n* Define, measure, and maintain SLOs and SLAs to meet service performance expectations.\n* Ensure the security of applications through best practices and conduct regular penetration tests to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.\n\n\n\nRequirements\n* 5+ years of experience building and deploying production infrastructure at scale\n* 5+ years experience working with AWS\n* Knowledge of PHP\n* Aware of trends and best practices in SRE and cloud infrastructure\n* 2+ years of experience managing system architecture, ensuring best practices for reliability, performance, and security\n* Strong technical leadership, mentorship, and communication skills\n* Experience working for a product-led growth company is beneficial\n* Experience managing a remote engineering team\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$170,000 - $190,000 a yearThis is a remote position, however candidates should be located in New York for occasional in-person meetings with the CTO and Product and Engineering Team Leads\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $45,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote, NY-NJ-CT Only