Your Impact
You are an SRE Engineering Manager with experience building and operating large-scale systems. You have deep interest in the topic of observability generally, including building and operating observability infrastructure, delving into the products and software that make use of that infrastructure via libraries, and being a product manager to build the best interface for observability data to be consumed by engineers to operate their products safely. You are generally excited about the care, feeding and growth of high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems. You want to lead a team of software experts in building complex and impactful observability systems while keeping your hands in the code. You also enjoy mentoring and growing junior engineers.
What You’ll Do
Location: Remote
Reports to: Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: 6-8 Software and Infrastructure Engineers
- Driving the execution of your team by leading planning, prioritization, stand-ups, and team retro meetings
- Leading the technical direction of the team through architectural discussions and code reviews
- Working with technical program managers, senior engineers, and client teams to deliver on foundational observability programs that cut across all product organizations.
- Join forces with recruiting to hire a top-notch engineering team
- Managing engineers and their careers with 1:1s and performance reviews
- Execute and deliver new features and improvements to internal customers on a regular basis
- Coaching your team for continuous improvements
- Tech Stack experience:
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Metrics: Grafana, Prometheus, Cortex, and 20+ open source components in that ecosystem
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Logs: Splunk Enterprise, self-hosted
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Frameworks for managing metric and log assets as code with continuous delivery
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In-house libraries (Scala, Golang) for interfacing to the metrics system
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Tracing: Jaeger, self hosted
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field
- 4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
- 3+ years of experience managing software developers building customer-facing software applications
- A track record of planning and delivering on multiple overlapping projects spanning several months
- Experience implementing an engineering process that emphasizes security, availability, scalability, and operational discipline
- Experience either directly managing observability-focused systems or a demonstrated interest in observability concerns like metrics, logging, distributed tracing, etc.
Benefits that Benefit You
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 135,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 216,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits.
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