Engineering Manager (SRE)

Location: Foster City, California, United States; hybrid

Salary: $250,000–$325,000 base salary plus equity

Company

Replit is an agentic software creation platform that enables people to build applications with natural language and AI.

What you will do

• Lead SRE across observability, incident management, load testing, performance engineering, cloud cost and capacity, and rollout infrastructure.
• Build and operate metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLOs, incident tooling, and reliability practices.
• Develop load and failure testing capabilities to validate critical paths, recovery, headroom, and production readiness.
• Lead performance investigations using profiling, telemetry, and load tests to identify and resolve bottlenecks with service owners.
• Review designs and production changes, debug difficult failure modes, and use AI coding tools while maintaining rigorous safeguards.
• Coach, hire, and develop engineers while measuring rollout safety, recovery time, latency, throughput, and test coverage.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing, developing, hiring, and performance-managing engineers.
• Depth in distributed systems or reliability platforms, including deployment behavior, Kubernetes, telemetry, service dependencies, and recovery mechanisms.
• Experience leading consequential migrations or incidents and validating reliability and performance fixes under realistic conditions.
• Ability to build platform capabilities adopted by other teams and balance reliability, performance, engineering effort, and cost.
• Experience with observability, profiling, load-testing, and failure-testing systems, including OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling.
• Experience with cloud cost attribution, capacity planning, provider coordination, and GCP.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitOps or progressive-delivery platforms such as Harness, ArgoCD, or Kargo.
• Experience growing distributed teams and using AI tools to increase engineering output while preserving production safeguards.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous work environment with quarterly team gatherings.
• Competitive salary, equity, and a 401(k) program with a 4% match for US employees.
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, parental, medical, and caregiver benefits.
• Flexible time off and holidays.
• Monthly wellness stipend, commuter benefits, office setup reimbursement, and office amenities.