Who you are

• 8+ years of experience in a technical field, with at least 3+ years in an engineering leadership position managing SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering teams
• A deep, principled understanding of SRE tenets, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and capacity planning
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• A strong technical background as a hands-on software engineer or site reliability engineer prior to moving into management. Deep knowledge of AWS services (especially networking, IAM, EKS, ALBs/NLBs, Route 53, CloudWatch). Proven experience with Kubernetes in production (EKS preferred), including service exposure, networking, and availability engineering
• Hands-on familiarity with modern SRE tools and technologies, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), container orchestration (Kubernetes), observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk), and incident tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, FireHydrant), deployment-safety tooling (e.g., Argo Rollouts, LaunchDarkly), and observability standards (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
• Executive-caliber incident communication/storytelling skills (clear status, stakeholder alignment, and post-incident narratives)
• Demonstrated success in hiring, developing, and mentoring high-performing engineers, including managing senior and principal-level talent
• Experience managing globally distributed teams and developing equitable and sustainable on-call rotation practices
• Experience in financial planning, budget management, and vendor contract negotiation for technical infrastructure and tooling

What the job involves

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Tubi is not a traditional operations team
• We are a software engineering organization that applies a developer's mindset and toolkit to the challenges of building and running large-scale, distributed systems
• Our mission is to engineer resilience from the ground up, enabling our product teams to innovate rapidly while ensuring our users have a stellar experience
• We own the availability, latency, performance, and capacity of our platform, and we achieve our goals through a culture of data-driven decision-making, blameless learning, and relentless automation
• We are seeking an experienced and visionary Senior SRE Manager to lead and grow our newly built Site Reliability Engineering team
• You are more than a people manager or a tech lead; you are the strategic leader responsible for architecting our reliability roadmap
• You will build and mentor a team of talented engineers, foster a culture of blameless learning and continuous improvement, and champion the engineering practices that allow us to balance rapid innovation with rock-solid stability
• You will be a key influencer in our engineering leadership, partnering with peers across the organization to ensure reliability is a shared responsibility and a core tenet of our engineering culture
• Team Leadership & Mentorship:
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers
• Foster a culture of innovation and technical excellence where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
• Provide personalized coaching, create professional development plans, and guide the careers of senior and emerging talent within the team
• Establish equitable, sustainable on-call practices (including global coverage where applicable) that protect focus time and avoid burnout
• Define team rituals - runbook reviews, game days, and incident retros - that reinforce quality and learning
• Strategic Planning & Vision: Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy and vision for Tubi’s observability, and automation platforms
• Partner with infra lead to align Tubi’s infrastructure & SRE roadmap
• Partner with tech leaders to align the SRE roadmap with business objectives
• Champion a data-driven approach to reliability, using Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to facilitate productive conversations about risk and feature velocity
• Operational Excellence & Incident Management:
• Own the end-to-end availability, performance, and efficiency of our critical user-facing services
• Evolve our incident response practice to reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
• Champion a rigorous, blameless, and data-driven post-mortem culture to ensure we learn from both successes and failures, driving eng teams for systemic fixes and automation to prevent the recurrence of incidents
• Streamline and improve our existing processes and practices, and collaborate with other teams to enhance our production release standards by improving current processes
• Define and tune a 24×7 on-call rotation for low noise and fast response; act as executive escalation partner during major incidents
• Own disaster-recovery strategy (playbooks, failover drills, recovery simulations) and track SLO gaps with time-bound remediations
• Financial & Vendor Management: Own the SRE budget, tooling, and headcount
• Manage relationships with key third-party vendors for our observability and SRE related AI platforms, work with infra lead and finance team for contract negotiations and ensure we derive maximum value from our investments
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a key influencer and strategic partner to leaders in Software Engineering, Product Management, and Infra/Sec
• Drive the adoption of SRE best practices and principles throughout the organization, ensuring new services are designed for reliability, scalability, and observability from day one

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage: We offer medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective from day one
• Family Support: We’re proud to support families of all kinds, and offer generous parental leave, childcare support, and eldercare assistance whenever you need it
• Wellness Programs: Monthly wellness reimbursement, generous time off, and additional Tubi Holidays help us support mental and physical wellbeing for you and your family
• Continuing Education: From education reimbursement to leadership development to certification support, we’re invested in developing our talent so you can take your career to the next level
• Financial Support: We offer resources to help keep you financially fit and invested in your future, from our highly-rated retirement savings matches to financial advisors and planning services