Engineering Manager, Edge SRE

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom. Candidates progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.

Company

hirify.global operates a global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications, serving customers from individual bloggers to large enterprises.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the Edge SRE team responsible for keeping hirify.global edge production reliable and scalable.
• Build tools and practices that help engineering teams debug production systems, measure availability and performance, and track operational thresholds.
• Prioritize the SRE roadmap and drive alignment across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.
• Partner with Engineering Managers to improve reliability outcomes for their services.
• Participate in technical design discussions and ensure systems meet quality and reliability standards.
• Mentor engineers, support personal development plans, and empower the team to make decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering, reliability, or operations experience in a customer-focused environment.
• 2+ years managing a team of 5 or more engineers working with distributed systems, tooling, Linux, internetworking, infrastructure security, or infrastructure management.
• Experience building services and systems from inception through production.
• Experience leading cross-team projects, setting technical direction, and communicating with upper management.
• Knowledge of incident management, root cause analysis, and production follow-up practices.
• Experience with distributed systems, proxies, DNS, databases, Internet infrastructure, security, tools, or APIs.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability tools such as Jaeger, OpenTracing, ELK, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, or ClickHouse.
• Experience leading and hiring teams that build and operate tools and platforms.
• Experience planning execution against deadlines and short release cycles.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an infrastructure organization providing production reliability across edge and core environments.
• Collaborate with SRE teams across Asia, Europe, and the United States to support follow-the-sun coverage.
• Contribute to projects supporting a free and open Internet, including protection for journalism, civil society, and election-related services.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations are available.