Full-Time Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Neon is an open-source company enabling faster serverless development, powered by Postgres. Are you an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer eager to lead a high-performing, remote team?
Do you thrive on mentoring engineers, optimizing workflows, and driving innovation?
If so, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead & Empower: Manage a high-performing distributed team (5+ engineers across the EU). Foster a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation.
• Remove Roadblocks: Identify and eliminate obstacles to maximize productivity and efficiency.
• Coach & Mentor: Support engineers' growth, career development, and performance evaluation.
• Optimize & Scale: Refine processes, tackle technical debt, ensure fast, high-quality delivery with tech leads and product managers.
• Enhance Communication: Foster collaboration within the team and across departments.
• Drive Strategic Impact: Align infrastructure projects with business goals.
• Maintain Reliability: Ensure a healthy, scalable on-call process for the team.
• Grow the Team: Recruit and hire top-tier Software Engineers.

What We're Looking For

• Engineering Leadership Experience: 2+ years in Engineering Management, 5+ years hands-on coding experience.
• Cloud & Platform Expertise: Experience leading/building cloud services or platforms.
• Remote Team Management: Proven ability to lead and scale distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Coaching & Communication: Strong mentoring skills, high emotional intelligence, exceptional prioritization abilities.
• Execution & Delivery: Experience shipping complex infrastructure projects with predictability.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Implement tools, processes, to unblock teams and drive continuous improvement.
• Technical Fluency:
  • Cloud: Azure and/or AWS experience
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes (multi-cluster, multi-cloud), Linux environments
  • Monitoring: Prometheus ecosystem (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics)
  • Scalable & Repeatable Infrastructure: Focus on efficiency and automation
  • Debugging & Innovation: Solve complex challenges
• Excellent English Communication: Native or near-native verbal and written skills.
• Curiosity & Growth: Passion for staying up-to-date with CS papers, trends, and best practices.
• Bonus Points: Go, GitOps (Flux, ArgoCD), Postgres, Virtualization (QEMU/KVM)

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Critical infrastructure projects that power our platform.
• Growth: Lead a talented team and shape the future of engineering culture.
• Flexibility: Fully remote distributed team across EU.
• Innovation: Be at the forefront of cloud technologies and DevOps best practices.

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