Replit
Replit
Replit is a collaborative software creation platform that enables people to build and share applications from anywhere, using any device. Its multiplayer environment supports real-time teamwork, while AI-powered Generate Code helps users turn ideas into working code and streamline development. The company operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence and B2B software, with a product designed for developers and teams creating software together.

Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering — Replit, Foster City (Hybrid)

Lead Replit’s Site Reliability Engineering function for its AI-powered software creation platform. Drive observability, incident response, performance, load testing, and safe production releases.

Description

  • Lead SRE across observability, incident management, load testing, performance engineering, cloud cost and capacity, and release infrastructure
  • Manage and expand an established team operating production platforms across application and infrastructure boundaries
  • Develop and run metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems
  • Help teams define meaningful SLOs and use production telemetry to investigate issues and confirm improvements
  • Own incident tooling and response practices, coordinate cross-functional recovery, and turn post-incident findings into engineering improvements
  • Develop and maintain load- and failure-testing capabilities
  • Test critical paths against expected demand, measure headroom, and assess recovery and production readiness with service owners
  • Lead focused work on SLOs and end-to-end system performance
  • Use profiling, telemetry, and load tests to locate bottlenecks and deliver improvements with service owners
  • Review designs and production changes, troubleshoot complex failure modes, and use AI coding tools for prototyping and automation
  • Coach engineers, grow technical leaders, manage performance, and hire for agreed team needs
  • Create effective distributed collaboration, mentoring, and backup-coverage practices
  • Monitor release safety, recovery time, recurring incidents, critical-path latency and throughput, test coverage, and cost and capacity gains
  • Define success measures and ongoing ownership with partner teams

Requirements

  • Proven engineering management experience, including developing engineers, setting priorities, making performance decisions, hiring thoughtfully, and delivering through a team
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems or reliability platforms
  • Ability to reason across deployment behavior, Kubernetes, telemetry, service dependencies, and recovery mechanisms
  • Experience leading high-impact migrations or incident responses
  • Experience using measurement to investigate reliability or performance issues and validate fixes under realistic conditions
  • Ability to create capabilities that other teams adopt
  • Ability to lead hands-on technical engagements without taking over every service’s operations
  • Ability to balance reliability, performance, engineering effort, and cost
  • Experience with GitOps or progressive-delivery platforms such as Harness, ArgoCD, or Kargo is a plus
  • Experience with observability, profiling, load-testing, and failure-testing systems, including OpenTelemetry or comparable tools, is a plus
  • Experience with cloud cost attribution, capacity planning, and provider coordination, particularly on GCP, is a plus
  • Experience growing distributed teams and using AI tools while maintaining production safeguards is a plus
  • Ability to work from the Foster City, California headquarters three days per week, or willingness to relocate
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States
  • Must be at least 18 years old

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 401(k) program with a 4% match in the United States
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
  • Flexible time off plus holidays
  • Commuter benefits for in-office employees in the United States
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Autonomous work environment
  • In-office setup reimbursement for in-office employees
  • Quarterly team gatherings
  • In-office amenities

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