Senior Engineering Manager, Reliability

1 hour, 42 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Twilio

Twilio

Twilio is a cloud communication company that offers Communication APIs for SMS, Voice, Video, and Authentication, empowering developers to embed communication capabilities into their software applications globally.

Diversified Telecommunication Services
5K-10K
Founded 2008

Description

  • Drive a customer-focused culture that prioritizes high availability and reliability for customer-facing services.
  • Manage, motivate, and support a team of SRE engineers based mostly in Ireland.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to support career development and sustained high performance.
  • Collaborate with Product Engineering teams to modernize software stacks and improve operational readiness.
  • Partner on best practices for building, testing, and operating services at scale in AWS environments.
  • Contribute to technical deep dives and help size engineering investment for modernization and service enhancements.
  • Develop and drive a technical roadmap aligned with Platform Engineering goals and quarterly objectives and key results.
  • Use metrics, SLIs, and SLOs to identify gaps in systems, services, and processes and implement fixes.
  • Lead post-incident reviews and ensure follow-up actions improve response to service failures.
  • Perform periodic audits and risk assessments to improve service security and reliability.
  • Increase automation to reduce toil and manual intervention in deployment and operations.
  • Promote leadership principles and help develop the next generation of leaders.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of management experience, including 3+ years leading a Reliability Engineering team.
  • Proven track record of managing and responding to incidents.
  • Experience with reliability modeling in distributed systems, including failure mode analysis, chaos engineering, graceful degradation, and automated recovery.
  • Operational experience with complex distributed systems and defining, measuring, and monitoring SLIs and SLOs.
  • Experience building and managing systems using Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and Terraform.
  • Ability to think at scale and apply continuous delivery methodologies from design through deployment and operations.
  • Strong product and architectural vision with the ability to communicate, advocate, and execute on it.
  • High degree of ownership and customer obsession.
  • Experience building and sustaining high-performing teams through clear communication, mentoring, and coaching.
  • Strong influence and persuasion skills to manage tradeoffs between right vs. right now engineering decisions.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience working in multi-functional teams and making decisive decisions when needed.
  • Experience operating large-scale, low-latency Java-based systems in production across multiple regions or data centers, preferred.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience, preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay.
  • Generous time off.
  • Parental leave and wellness leave.
  • Healthcare benefits.
  • Retirement savings program.
  • Remote work based in Ireland.
  • Occasional travel for project or team in-person meetings as needed.
  • Support for volunteering and donation efforts through Twilio community impact programs.

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