Director of SRE

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

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.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

Summary

An SRE Director deploys and empowers Engineers and Engineering Managers per adjacent areas to deploy and run the product and increase Developer Experience. An SRE Director works directly with the main stakeholders to better allocate budget and people allocation based on roadmap.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices
• Solid knowledge of the tools and frameworks used at Remote
• Solid communication skills
• Solid organisation skills
• Solid understanding of prioritization and optimization processes
• Mentors others to inspire and instill confidence
• Works with Engineering managers to manage people allocation
• Works with the wider Engineering Department to ensure roadmap execution
• Understands and deploys growth initiatives
• Solid comprehension of department dynamics and team building
• Understand allocation dynamics of big groups of people and clearly articulates this
• Can manage a group of Engineers
• Solid experience hiring people
• Solid experience managing department budget
• Works across multiple departments of the business to ensure mission success
• Understands the leadership responsibilities and prioritises execution of company-wide strategy
• Proactively addresses issues across multiple departments by working with stakeholders
• Proactively participates in leadership debates and offers solutions to adjacent areas of expertise
• Works with all stakeholders to achieve global maxima for results

Etiquette

• Solid display of Remote 💎Values
• Proactively seeks new tools and frameworks that can improve the team's productivity
• Clearly communicates needs and requirements to optimise productivity across teams
• Implements feedback and mentoring in all teams
• Suggests new initiatives and approaches to current problems
• Helps everyone grow continuously
• Clearly aligns mission and vision across multiple teams
• Publicly empowers the team and gives visibility to the work group successes

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve existing infrastructure
• Build the next generation of Remote platform: using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker.
• Streamline and automate deployment processes
• Work closely with the Security team to keep on top of potential threats/patches
• Support our engineers and product teams to improve overall scalability, stability and reliability
• Manage the SRE Team workplan, tasks and roadmap
• Participate in hiring, performance assessment and overall career lifecycle of all reports
• Own SRE department roadmap and implementation
• Own SRE team budget and allocation

Practicals

• You'll report to: VP of Engineering
• Team: Site Reliability Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

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 hav