Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ninety provides EOS software that helps companies improve execution, business metrics, and sustainable growth. The SRE Delivery Manager will lead SRE and Delivery teams, establish reliable infrastructure and delivery practices, coordinate deployment and monitoring needs, and provide operational support in a lean engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead a team of 6, organized into two pods, covering both SRE and Delivery
- Provide career development and mentorship through continuous checkins and quarterly reviews
- Drive independent workstreams for each pod while providing reliable infrastructure, deployment, and operational support to the broader engineering team and business
- Define and implement best practices for delivery, infrastructure reliability, and observability in a lean, high-impact environment
- Coordinate with application development team (software engineers, designers, and product owners) to ensure deployment, infrastructure, and monitoring needs are met
- Manage on-call rotation and scheduling
- Ensure infrastructure and systems operate securely, following industry best practices
- Fulfill a player-coach role, anticipating 80% management and 20% hands on
- Systems and infrastructure operate efficiently with the bounds of our SLA’s
- Production incidents are properly managed and routed to responsible parties to be mitigated and resolved within expected timeframes
- Engineering pods are equipped with tools needed to develop and iterate quickly
- We routinely scan and identify security vulnerabilities and address appropriately
- We are keeping up to date with industry standards, best practices, and technology as it pertains to our infrastructure and delivery processes
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with focus on SRE/devops
- Demonstrated success leading teams through architectural transitions (e.g., serverless to EKS)
- Proven experience managing engineering teams
- Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Observability best practices
- Ability to drive outcomes in a lean, fast-paced environment
- Expertise in the AWS stack, specifically Lambda/serverless and Kubernetes/EKS
- Strong proficiency in Datadog (APM/RUM/Synthetics)
- Rootly (or other major on-call, paging toolsets)
- Feature-flagging & experimentation platforms like Launch Darkly
- Backend service architecture experience is a plus (monolith, microservices, etc)
- GitHub; experience with Harness is a plus
Benefits
- Work From Anywhere: Live and Work where you’re happiest.
- As-Needed Vacation: Recharge when you need to.
- Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid time to bond with your growing family.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
- Company-Paid Life & LTD: Peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
- HSA, FSA & DCFSA Accounts: Flexible ways to manage medical and dependent care costs. Ninety contributes annually to your HSA—front-loaded to help you cover expenses sooner.
- Productivity Allowance: Use toward wellness, tech, or productivity—whatever helps you thrive.
- 401(k) with Company Match: Plan for your future with automatic company contributions.
- Equity Opportunities: Share in Ninety’s long-term growth and success.
- Professional Development Reimbursement: Annual funds to support your learning and growth.
- Company Gatherings: In-person connection and collaboration, with travel covered.
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