Sr Engineering Manager Infrastructure SRE
Sr Engineering Manager Infrastructure SRE
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$ 221000 - 299000
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Job Description
Who we are
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools we demystify complex network operations enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer Kentik is the realtime source of truth that understands every network in context from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud device flow synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai Dropbox and Zoom rely on Kentik to run manage and optimize their networks.
What we do
What youll do
- Build and lead a highperforming distributed Infrastructure SRE team
- Contribute directly to IaC automation and reliability efforts that help us scale safely
- Drive with ownership and accountability for platform reliability
- Develop and mentor team members creating growth opportunities
- Champion a customerfirst mindset for both external and internal stakeholders
- Implement SRE best practices that make sense for Kentiks unique environment
- Support incident management including oncall rotations and postmortem processes
- Partner with other engineering leaders to ensure seamless operations through the development of collaborative reliability initiatives
- Foster datadriven decision making and measurable outcomes
- Develop effective engagement models with product engineering teams as your primary stakeholders
- Contribute to maturing our SRE practices and governance as we scale
What youll bring
Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100 of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria even if you dont match all of the qualifications your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 6 years of SRE/DevOps experience with at least 3 years of managing engineering teams
- Strong handson technical expertise with infrastructure technologies including:
- Network fundamentals and webbased protocols (HTTPS TCP/IP DNS)
- API design patterns and microservice architectures
- Message brokers (e.g. Kafka)
- Databases (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL Redis)
- Observability stacks (e.g. VictoriaMetrics Grafana ELK)
- Workload orchestration systems (e.g. Nomad)
- Configuration management and IaC tools (e.g. Puppet Ansible Terraform)
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions)
- Cloud Service Providers (e.g. AWS GCP Azure)
- Proven ability to write code and contribute to automation efforts for scalable systems
- Demonstrated ownership and bias for in critical infrastructure environments
- Strong customer orientation and stakeholder engagement
- Experience implementing SLO frameworks and reliability practices
- Proven incident management leadership and bestpractice implementation
- Excellentcommunication and influence skills
Nice to haves:
- Experience in hybrid infrastructure environments
- Background in scaling up high availability complex systems
- Familiarity with network observability and intelligence
- Datadriven approach to decision making including capacity management and infrastructure efficiency
- Experience leading teams through organizational change
Our tech stack
- Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
- We use Express for application serving and React as our primary UI framework
- We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
- In addition to our own database we use Postgres Kafka Mysql and Redis
- Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
- Haproxy Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
- Github for source control PRs issues
- Jenkins for automated builds
What we offer
Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization and in turn to broaden and enhance your career. Were very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.
The compensation range for this position is: $221000 $299000.This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors including but not limited to:
- Experience with the skill sets required for success
- Demonstrated competencies and potential
- A geographic marketbased approach
In addition to a great career opportunity Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees which include:
- 100 of premiums are paid by company for health vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3000 for an individual or $4500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO a quarterly Wellness Day and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Note: Benefits are as listed for all US fulltime employees. For compensation international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.
Come work with us
The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. Were committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice has a sense of belonging and is represented at Kentik.
We dont look for individuals who fit the culture but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color LGBTQI community women individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen) veterans and people of any age or family status.
Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process please reach out to
Come as you are!
You will be working at a fastgrowing wellfunded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects youll take on were sure youll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
